Hi, I am looking at upgrading my storage via external USB HDD enclosures. Specifically getting a total of 8 disks in 2 4 disk enclosures. I currently have 3* Toshiba N300 6TB and 3* Toshiba N300 10TB. Both drives have specified on official website Drive bays supported 1-8. Does this number mean...

I use external Seagate 10TB disk for periodically sync zfs snapshots, and for safe use and correct spin down. By some case device never try spin down after unmounting device. For resolve I try use usbcontrol for power_off usb port. usbconfig -d ugen0.3 power_off All work OK, externall device...

Hi, I've read a lot here on this topic and on the FreeNAS subreddtit but I can't get it to work. Ok, here's what I want to do: I want to connect an external 1TB HDD USB 3.0 ext4 formatted drive to my production FreeNAS 11.2-U4.1(please see my signature for hardware details). On this external...

I had my second USB boot drive die in one of my servers, and am trying to recover my freenas config. Of course it has been too long since the last backup, but I did boot my desktop to an ubuntu live usb, and was able to dd the entire contents of the 128gb freenas boot drive to a file on my...

Hey guys, I'm trying to create a bootable USB stick but apparently something does not work. FreeNAS version: FreeNAS-11.1-U5.iso My hardware: ASRock C236 WSI Intel C236 So.1151 Dual Channel DDR4 Mini-ITX Retail Intel Pentium G4400 2x 3.30GHz So.1151 BOX 16GB (1x 16384MB) Hynix HMA82GU7AFR8N...

Hi, I am trying use my 8TB Seagate backup+ hub USB drive in my FreeNAS machine. It cannot be viewed as a disk in FreeNAS. I am running FreeNAS on ESXI. usbconfig sees the seagate. ugen0.1: <0x15ad XHCI root HUB> at usbus0, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=SUPER (5.0Gbps) pwr=SAVE (0mA) ugen0.2: <Seagate...

On my FreeNAS 8.3.1 I'm a UDF Flash Drive to house my custom maintenance scripts so that they are totally independent of my data pools. I just upgraded to FreeNAS v11U4, so using a UDF Flash Drive is no longer an option. I am now using a 120GB SSD as a boot drive, so I was wondering if there...

I am having so many problems with my machine(s). The problems have been replicated at different physical locations, different machines, and even different versions of FreeNAS. They always happen the same way. I have spent hours trying to find solutions to my problems in the forums and my own...

Not 100% sure if I'm going to build 9.10 or 11.0, but if it's stable enough, I'll go for 11.0. I'm looking for recommendations for USB drives to use as a mirrored boot drive, and these are the choices that I'm looking at: (Canadian Prices from Local Supplier) SanDisk Ultra Flair 32GB USB 3.0...

Every video I have watched about FreeNAS, say to put in on CD or DVD, the when you run that you set it run a USB drive. I do understand that totally, but the question I have, instead of a USB Drive, could I run this on a SD card, if the computer has a card reader in it? I have an 8 GB SD Card...