Hello, I'm a newbie, and I've done a bit of reading around here. My system is FreeNAS-11.1-U6 Supermicro X11SSM-F Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1275 v5 @ 3.60GHz 16GB ECC RAM 8x2TB HDD (4 WD RED WD20EFRX & 4 Seagate Ironwolf ST2000VN000) My system was showing an error: The volume vol1 state is...

Hey there, I'm looking to get into FreeNAS for file storage and Plex streaming. I'm also hoping to run a windows VM that would allow me to rip and transcode my media files. It'd be a family build with at most 4 streams at once. Right now I've got FreeNAS installed on an old i7-2600 to...

Dear All, Hi - I am Parth from India. I am 25 and A bit of a computer nerd. I never have been able to handle linux, and this is my first try at utilising an already spare desktop for my small office personal use. My office basically has PDF files, Excel, Word, Accounting data to be backed up...

Hello, as you are aware I'm new to this forum and nas thing overall. I am okay with hardware, but the software side is not as strong. Purpose for nas: 1) storing backups of several macbooks 2) storing digital photos and important documents 3) storing movies (and hopefully streaming them to tv...

Hey there, I have at home an HP DL 180G6 running latest and greatest FreeNAS with: Dual E5606's (2.13GHz Quad's - Easily upgradeable) 16GB ECC 10600R (Easily Upgradeable) 6X 2TB WD RE4 Drives (With 4 more on the way) 1X 250GB SSD (Samsung Evo 850) 1X 128GB SSD (Something not so special that's...

Hey everyone, I like many of you am a hardware geek that can't help myself and as a result I am trying to create a great lab at home without buying a Nimble CSxxx or who else knows what. A bit about me, I've been working on computers since I was 12 (I'm sure that's not common here ;)) and have...

I'm a North American in the Philippines and I have lots of things to back up. My searching has sent me here and I've lurked for more than a day so I signed up. Here we are now.

Hi, after installing free as for the first time a few months ago I'm still fairly low on the learning curve. I've come from a 90% windows background so it's been a fairly uphill struggle so far. I thought I'd try first with a bunch of old 3tb drives I had laying about so I've created a 20tb...

Hi, I'm building a NAS for a non profit that I am part of. The main use case for the NAS is going to be a file share for multiple concurrent video and photography editors. I've been reading up a lot on FreeNAS and ZFS and have tried to pick decently priced hardware that abides by all of the...

I created a FreeNAS server for file storage and sharing. However, it seems that I may have set it up incorrectly. I did not create a dataset on the main volume and the shares are directly from the volume. The share volume is 2x 2TB drives in RAID1 and there is another 2TB drive I can use to copy...

Hi, First of all, thank you for dropping by! I know forums can be a chore for those sharing knowledge to complete noobs, but I really appreciate that this community exists. I'm hoping to use this thread as a staging area to plan, receive feedback, and then carry out my first FreeNAS project...

Hi, I'm pretty new to FreeNAS, Ive been following it from affar for a few years but my first proper install was v.11u2. So far it's been great but I'm having a little trouble with the Export Recycle Bin feature. I'm not sure if it's a bug in freenas or my own incompetence. I have a single...

Hi all, After much reading of the docs and forums, I finally have FreeNAS 11.0 going (hardware config at end of post.) I've discovered what I think might be a bug, but I thought I'd ask here before filing a bug report. Please note that this is all on a fresh install. Also, please note this is a...

Hi Folks. First time caller, long time user.... Been running FreeNAS on an HP workstation XW8200 for about two years. (4) 2TB Seagates on an LSI SATA card, 16GB of memory....it's been flawless, until Sunday night/Monday morning's weekly scrub. Sunday afternoon, I also upgraded to update U4...

Hi all ! Fist post on this forum. hope this is in the right section. I'm an ubuntu user trying to set up my first ZFS cross drive partition. I can't quite figure it out. in fact the end goal is to boot my emulated hardware pass-through windows on this partition...

Hello, this will be my first "big" FreeNAS build and I'm looking for advice just to make sure that the pieces that I have chosen are the best for my needs. This server will be used to back up all the information that we have sparced in all the building, as well as storage of ESXi using a NFS...

Ive read a few posts indicating that raidz1 is not preferred on large drives due to failure rates. However i think i have read that mirroring is ok. Can anyone explain why? Is mirroring more reliable somehow due to the way resilvering works? Right now i just have a pair of drives, but when i...

Well, i have my first freenas set up. Right now, all I have is the server and a usb key. I do not yet have any disks or zpools. those should be arriving shortly. It all works well. so far Last night I actually received my first email alert (Yay, SNMP works) Unfortunately, i have no idea...