Hello! I have a question. I originally bought a 1TB Samsung SSD because I was going to, before I started using TrueNas, use Windows 10 as my storage server OS and knew that Windows tends to take up a lot of space. Obviously, I am using TrueNas and I am thinking of doing a swap to a smaller SSD...

This is an early work-in-progress, It's a simple python script to run on TrueNAS server to analyze the SMART disk reports using ChatGPT. The goal is to leverage the GPT3.5 and GPT4 API to read your disk's SMART reports and generate simplified reports with health scores and detailled summary of...

ZPool, SMART, and UPS Status Report with TrueNAS Config Backup Original Script By: joeschmuck Modified By: bidelu0hm, melp, fohlsso2, onlinepcwizard, ninpucho, isentropik, rotx, dak180 Last Edited By: dak180 Current Version: v1.8 Preview of the output here: https://i.imgur.com/jKwraw4.png When...

I get the feeling that most of us (myself included) rely too much on the 250 IOPS value used as reference in iX's ZFS Pool White Paper, so I wrote this bit in order to clarify things a tad. IOPS stands for input/output operations per second and represents how many read and write operations a...

Hey, guys. I bought an adapter card to plug my NVMe driver into a PCI-e slot (adapter image is attached). This board has a super capacitor, capable of keeping the driver on for seconds in case of power failure. Enough time to write any outstanding data. It works as a UPS directly connected to...

Hello my friends, perhaps I can get answer here faster than anywhere. I have small TrueNAS box. Inside I have put Adaptec ASR-71605 controller, configured in HBA mode. Now I have connected to it 6 drives, all 6TB SATA drives. They are visible and all working perfectly. Now I wanted to add...

Hello everyone, Happy to finally join the TrueNAS community :)! It is my understanding that it is no longer recommended to boot software from a USB drive and preferably an SSD hard drive should be used - this raises a question that I can not get my head around. The OS 'weighs' only a couple of...

Hello Community, I'm testing a new system prior installing in production. During testing i'm running into some unexpected behavior and am trying to diagnose what could be the cause. I've installed FreeNAS onto 2 SSD's in a mirror, in bios mode from a USB drive. After the installation...

NOTE: I'll be referring in this page, to a type of SSD developed by Intel and Micron, called 3D X-Point (pronounced "crosspoint"). It's most widely sold as Intel's Optane. The Optane devices I mean are things like the 900p, 905p, and P48xx. First generation optane and some smaller ones aren't...

Hello Everyone, I'm building a system using a supermicro X10QBI machine, my initial plan was to have a 6 SSD's for my hot-tier and 8 HDD's for my cold-tier. I have 2 individual raid controllers on the box and i'm ready to install freenas. I wanted to ask the community as I've googled around but...

Does it exists? If not, can we build one? Since SSDs are the go-to boot drive, this would be really useful.

Hallo zusammen, ich bin neuer Anwender mit FreeNAS und bisher richtig begeistert! Bis... ...bis vor ca. 4 Wochen unsere V-Server, die ihre .vhdx-Dateien per iSCSI auf dem NAS ablegen, einen bluescrenn gezeigt haben. In einem Pool aus 4 SSDs meldet eine Platte Chekcsummenfehler. Im Protokoll...

Hi , ‘I’m wanting to build a nas system entirely of ssd based drives. The capacity many Cary from 4tb - 8tb and some for redundancy 1. The sound is 0 2. Lower power comsumption 3. Cheaper is there any advise you can give me, as I’ve read many articles, and am confused as a can of spaghetti...

Hi, Recently, I bought a used server (R820 ; 32 Core ; 256G RAM) as an upgrade for my ESXi server. Thanks to that, I moved my main FreeNAS from its T-130 to the T-330 I freed. The 8 drives are paired in 4 mirrors and a single pool. The server is maxed out on RAM (64G) and there is only a last...

Hi community, first time poster here! I currently have a R710 system running on 11.1 U7 and I've been running this on a mirrored usb drive for more than 1.5 year with only 1 usb failure. I want to increase the reliability of the boot system and move the OS to an ssd. I would also like to update...

Hello, I'm looking for some guidance on an addition to my FreeNAS system. I want to create a PCI-E SSD share and use it for volatile temporary storage and file transfers between systems. So redundancy is not needed, I just want quick storage over the network with High IOPS. Thoughts on how to...

I would like to have shared storage for our ESXI's. Our current hardware: ESXI1: HP Proliant DL380 G6, 144GB RAM, 2x Intel Xeon X5675 @ 3,07GHz, 3x Intel 910 800GB PCI-E SSD as local storage. ESXI2: HP Proliant DL380 G6, 72GB RAM, 2x Intel Xeon X5675 @ 3,07GHz, 2x Intel 910 800GB + Samsung 970...

Hi, I've got a question about SLOG. I'm not sure if it has to be redundant. What I've read so far says, that it does not need to be redundant because if device fails, the ZIL just goes to the pool where it would be without SLOG anyways. OK, but I never had a completely failing SSD so far. If I...

Disclaimer: I am VERY new to anything server or homelab. I probably do not know what I'm talking about most of the time. I have a R720 with a H310MM RAID card that is flashed into IT mode. I plan to make this server into a NAS & PLEX server. It currently has 8x3TB drives in it. I need a boot...

I'm planning to build an all SSD pool for various storage (vm's, database, static files etc...), and I often run in to the TRIM-thing and garbage collection painted as a big issue with SSD's. I'm not sure if this information is obsolete or not. The FreeNAS documentation does not help me that...

Okay I just happened to stumble onto this and can't believe it 1TB $77.76 https://eshop.macsales.com/item/Micron/AK960TCB1A/?utm_source=affiliate&utm_campaign=cj&cjevent=287b5ce19dd311e982f001b50a240613 4TB $317.76...

I am in the process of replacing a failed SATA DOM (SSD) device (after about 1.5 years of use). This did not leave a real positive impression of that technology so I decided to just replace it with a more conventional SSD drive. After following the instructions on...

If you're looking to grab an SSD to use as a FreeNAS Boot Device these 120 GB Kingston SSDs are only $19.99 right now. Does anyone have any experience with these particular drives?

Still recovering from a failed USB drive, all other 8 drives (save for one SATA drive that is being a little picky about when it responds to read commands) are functioning and should have the data from the previous installation. My backup .tar file doesn't seem to work, I can't seem to get the...

Hello, I bought two 800GB SAS SSDs and connected them to ports 12 and 13 on my R510 (yes, the internal 2.5" bays). I ran a short smart test on both of them and they look fine, been powered on ~4years but both have less than 1TB written or read to\from them. The first time I tried to create a...

I bought a 120GB SSD for a boot drive and hate to waste the 100+GB of empty space! Does freeNAS accept partitioned drives and can I have one partition as a boot and one as a cache drive?

i see good prices (under 400$) on ebay for Samsung PM983 3.84TB SSD PCIe Gen3 MZ-QLB3T80 MZQLB3T8HALS-000AZ what chassis\motherboard is compatible with them to support 24 (or more) in 2U or 72 in 4U (supermicro preferred) this is not sas\sata so i don't know what are the competabilites

Hi, I'm using FreeNas in a rather basic way. I got 3 GB hard-drives in some sort of mirroring config (forgot how I set it up, but I can post info about that later) where I store photos etc. I upgraded my desktop computer and now got an 500 GB SSD-drive left over. I normally run a few instances...

I recently completed a new build, and for my Jail drive I used an M.2 SSD I got a good deal on online. I was a little concerned about longevity of the particular drive since it's using QLC flash memory, but since it was much larger than the capacity I really needed, I figured I could just...

Hi, My system was running stable with the boot pool living on a mirrored set of flash drives. Recently one failed, and the other went to a degraded state and showed errors as well, so I decided to replace the flash drives with an internal SSD. I took a backup of the FreeNAS configuration, and...

Hello, I'm looking to accomplish two things: 1. Upgrade from FreeNAS-9.10.2 to version 11 2. Move from my single USB boot drive to a dual SSD's ( Mirrored ) My Freenas hosts a RAID-Z3 Pool, which I mostly use as a home share for some windows machines. What will I need to do in order to make...

Hi FreeNAS community :) Would like to share my storage experience: hardware RAID SSDs vs FreeNAS old rust spinning SATA HDDs.... Hardware and soft used: 1) 4 years old, everyday in use HP ML350p Gen8 server, 2xXeon 2630v2, 64GB RAM, with 420i raid 1GB cache raid controller, configured...

Hi All, What do I look for in a SATA SSD to be used as boot disk in freenas? I recently built a freenas server using a 120 GB WD green ssd for boot. I got checksum errors and a degraded boot volume almost immediately after initial boot in freenas. I learnt from this forum that some models of...

Hi All, I re-purposed an old CAD workstation to run FreeNAS RC1, about half an hour after initial boot I got a re light indicating the boot volume is degraded. I used a brand new 120 GB WD green SSD. How can I tell if the ssd is faulty? I've seen other threads with people having issues with ssd...

I have a ZFS server with 2 x mirrored/striped (aka RAID10) pools. One pool is 8 x 3TB 7200rpm Toshiba drives and holds an iSCSI volume. The other pool is 12 x 4TB drives and is used for SMB shares. (I put a zpool status dump at the bottom of the post) Currently I'm using 2 x HUSSL4010BSS600 as...

Hello all. I am very close to completing my first FreeNAS build (just waiting on a CPU heatsink bracket in the mail). While I wait, I wanted to get your opinion on the use of two SSDs that I have at my disposal. I initially bought a 16GB, based on the recommended FreeNAS minimum requirements...

Hi all, My fresh FreeNAS-11.2-BETA1 build shows a "Boot Volume State is Degraded" error. My boot drive is a WDC WDS120G2G0B-00EPW0 (WD Green 120GB SSD on m.2) I've read in the following threads: https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/boot-volume-state-is-degraded-how-do-i-fix-this.66575/...

So I decided to add a mirror set of 240g ssd's to my freenas box and seeing as iocage is the way things are heading I would like to know how to activate iocage to use my ssd pool (Named: Jails) for Plex etc.. instead of my primary pool (Tank) I have previously activated iocage on Tank (iocage...

I was wondering if it is possible to install FreeNAS on an M.2 drive and still use it to store some jails on it as well. I have a spare 128Gb M.2 Drive, and I feel it could be put to good use somehow in a FreeNAS. But I think FreeNAS destroys all partitions prior to install, so im not quite sure...

Hi all, Been working with Freenas for about a year now maybe. I have some questions i saved up: 1. I have 16gb of memory I run Plex / nzbget / sonarr / radarr / transmission / plexpy / webserver (spotnet) CPU: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 99.9% idle Mem: 53M Active...

Hallo zusammen, ich bin dabei mir ein NAS - eher SAN (als VMware Datastore) - zusammenzustellen und habe dazu drei Fragen. 1. Wird die (unten aufgelistete) Hardware-Zusammenstellung funktionieren? 2. Wird diese Konfiguration mit FreeNAS funktionieren? 3. Spricht irgendetwas gegen einen...

Hey, i have an SSD that all my jails and VMs run from. This is a volume with a single drive so if it ever fails i'll have a lot of work to restore. Just wondering what is the best way to clone it so i can have a backup copy if it ever goes?

I have loaded Freenas on two SSDs and get a degraded message in the GUI. If I load Freenas on to each drive separately the system shows healthy. Is there something I am doing wrong, should I try to mirror the drive after the first drive installation?

Hello, I'm building a NAS drive with a Supermicro X11SSH-F motherboard and trying to decide what to use as the boot device, and I'm asking you for advice. The board can boot off of any one of several possible devices, but the two most likely options are a USB flash drive or a M.2 PCI-E 3.0 x2...

Hi Guys, Is it recommended to update Samsung M.2 NVMe SSD firmware versions before use with FreeNAS? I have a PM953 and just wondering if there are any recommendations on updating the firmware to a certain level before using as a SLOG? Cheers Eds

Hi, I need help I get this error. Request Method: POST Request URL: https://192.168.0.224/storage/volumemanager/ Software Version: FreeNAS-11.1-U1 (f7e246b8f) Exception Type: MiddlewareError Exception Value: [MiddlewareError: Unable to GPT format the disk "nvd0": gpart: geom 'nvd0': File...

Ciao a tutti, sono nuovo nel mondo FreeNAS ma ben felice di farne parte...Perchè? Dopo aver letto il seguente articolo, credo che stavo un pò perdendo tempo sia nell'imparare una nuova ( per me ) tecnologia, sia nello sfruttore un pò meglio le prestazioni del mio umile hw...

I googled this but I don't have the experience and certainty so I thought it's worth asking here. I have a decent SSD (Intel P3700 NVMe) that I plan to redeploy as a ZIL. It's a lot bigger than the ZIL needs to be, and web pages make clear that many SSDs can gain phenomenal performance if they...

Hallo ich möchte in einem FreeNAS Server einen ZIL Cache hinzufügen mit 4 SSD´s, wenn ich das mache und kann ich bei 4 ausgewählten SSD´s nur Mirror auswählen ist das dann sowas wie ein Raid 10? Ich möchte durch den Cash eine Schreibgeschwindigkeit um die 1GB/s (10GBE Netzwerk) bekommen. Ist das...

Hello everyone, I'm testing my build to check that everything is working as expected. Here is the build : Supermicro X11SSL-F Intel Core i3-6100 Kingston Memory DDR4 16GB 2133MHz ECC Seasonic FOCUS Plus 550 Gold Samsung ssd 830 pro 128GB (Detected has 840) 2x WD Red - 3.5" SATA 6Gb/s - 6TB...