Hi All, Build: FreeNAS-11.1-U6 System use: Veeam Backup repository / Template VM’s (that are just deployed to our primary storage from there) - no live workloads on the system We built a FreeNAS storage server in a 24 drive Supermicro chassis last year (With the excellent of advice of some...

Is 24 drives in RaidZ3 with Toshiba N300s safe? Here, it says that the N300 is only rated for up to 8 drives - I don't really understand what that recommendation is about? Is me filling our 24 drive bay with 8TB drives with 3-drive redundancy and spares on-hand a bad idea...

Hey All, i just got myself the following set-up: Fractal Design R4 65 Supermicro X10SL7-F Motherboard Xeon E3-1230 V3 CPU Kingston 2x 8gb KVR16E11/8 ECC RAM Corsair RM 550w PSU USE Case: Photo/Video storage and editing off the NAS. so i would like 500MB + speeds Will be be building 10...

I've had FreeNAS running several days and it's performing very well I have noticed that the last disk in the RAID-Z3 array seems to get almost no utilization. I assume this is normal? I've attached a screenshot from when a scrub was underway, showing the other disks averaging 66...

My original volume consisted of 12 3tb drives in raidz3. I had read that performance is degraded if the capacity is over 80%. So I bought another 12 3tb drives and used them to extend the volume. I did this using the GUI and extended the existing volume by adding the new 12 drives in a raidz3...

Hello, I need to setup a FreeNAS server with 16 disks of 8TB. I would like to know what is the best way to configure my array, I need to have at least 95TB available for data. Thanks.

I have a new system built (thanks for verifying the hardware specs btw) with 12 drives, mixing SAS and SATA controllers, the board is a Supermicro that allows up to 16 drives in total. - RAM on the system is maxed out. 32 to 64GB RAM. No SSD caches of any kind for ZLOG/ZIL,etc. Now the system...