I've been looking for the right place to post this and I believe this is it. To be brief, I've been working on a YouTube series where I'm building a 100TB ZFS based server. Not all Enterprise grade hardware (it's for at home) and not using FreeBSD/FreeNAS (I have some different requirements)...

After getting my new Seagate IRONWOLF 2TB drive I started running a smart long test and this is the resulting data I got. freenas# smartctl -a /dev/ada3 smartctl 6.6 2017-11-05 r4594 [FreeBSD 11.1-STABLE amd64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-17, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke...

EPILOGUE A bit of the background. My SYSTEM SPECS are available in my signature. It’s been nearly 3 years from original build and about 10-12 months from my last upgrade/addition of the noctua fans. Obviously the digital media is growing at an exponential rate and my family now uses my FreeNAS...

This should be a simple question that i'm assuming the answer, I would just like to make sure before I pull the trigger. I currently have 6 2TB WD RED drives in my NAS over the next few months I will be buying replacement drives to expand the storage. I'm looking to get 6 10TB drives. 1. Since...

I want to build a new RAIDZ2 pool with 10x10TB drives... I plan to use Seagate drives for this. I saw they have some problems with SAS cards, but I want to use them with SATA slots, so I hope it will not be a problem. My question is there are two 10 TB drives, ST10000NM0016 ( Enterprise ) and...

Hello, what about integration of Seagate Iron Wolf ™ Health Management ? https://www.seagate.com/files/www-content/product-content/ironwolf/_shared/masters/IronWolf_Health_Management_Manual_22717.pdf https://www.seagate.com/internal-hard-drives/hdd/ironwolf/health/...