storage pools

  1. Kiran Kankipati

    SOLVED FreeNAS Virtual Machine (VM) (WARNING: NOT SAFE) and Software Defined Storage (SDS)

    FreeNAS Fans, Hey guys, I built and deployed a FreeNAS Virtual Machine (VM) with multiple virtual harddrives within physical harddrives spread across. It is a quite fascinating journey. I shot a detailed video of my build. Looking for your views: What I am expecting is to have an alternative...
  2. cronsloth

    RAIDz2 x 2 (ie RAID60) when and why?

    Just started at a new studio, and I got to inherit the previous admins config decisions. (great :p) I was told we had 8 disks in RAIDz2, but when I did the math, we were sitting about about 1/2 the usable space that I was expecting to see. Due to the space restriction, the admin also disabled...
    • cronsloth
    • Thread
    • storage performance storage pools storage raid vdev
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Storage
  3. I

    Advice with VM or Data sets for TimeMachine + Windows Backup + Plex Server on FreeNAS?

    Hi gang! I would so appreciate some advice/recommendations on how to setup my drive pools to work with TimeMachine Backups + Windows Backup + Plex Server + File storage. *Annnd if it's not to crazy have some GPU's mining coin. *note that the mining is more of a "in a perfect world" wish and...
    • iHeartMacs
    • Thread
    • plex configuration storage pools time machine vm create
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Storage
  4. fahadshery

    SOLVED Copying files from SSD to NAS Drives

    Hi, Built my first FreeNAS. Here is the hardware list: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/b/NbpG3C I installed SSD just for jails (for better transcoding) I initially had some Media on the SSD (when i was testing the FreeNAS)....which I want to copy over to my new NAS drives. The speed I am getting...
    • fahadshery
    • Thread
    • plex media server ssd storage storage pools
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Storage
  5. Z

    Can not remove disk

    Dear Community, I'd like to remove a cache disk from the system, but I can't. I tried these pool: striped_volume state: ONLINE scan: scrub repaired 0 in 10h11m with 0...
  6. Tony Self

    Data Migration

    I am getting to grips with migrating my data from my Ext4 formatted drives, but before I go much further I would like to get some validation on my storage strategy before I get to a point of no return. I have 8 x 3TB drives (5 WD Red and 3 Seagate Barracuda). At the moment I had managed to...
  7. GaiusMinimus

    Optimizing mixed disk setup with ZFS

    I apologize if this question has been answered before. I searched "mixed disk" in the search and didn't see any results. I currently have a mixture of disks I would like to use in my ZFS setup. I would like some redundancy (be able to lose at least 1 drive) so I believe a raidz setup is ideal...
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