Hi,
I've installed FreeNAS on an HP N54L with 5x4TB drives and mirrored USB sticks for FreeNAS. All seems to be good but I'm lost on how to use the disks. So far I have configured one pool with RaidZ2 using the entire space but I'm not sure if that is the right thing to do? If it is, then I'm lost as to whether I should be creating datasets under this or zvols?
My requirements are quite simple. I want to store my reference info (e.g. ebooks, pdf files, magazines etc.), my music library, videos, photos, documents etc. I plan to serve the videos to Kodi players using Plex and I would like to create a small virtual machine to run Logitech Media Server (or whatever it is called these days) for my Squeezebox players.
Previously I have been using Microsoft's WHS 2011 and I partitioned the disks for each function. The primary reason for that was because some data changed frequently whilst others didn't and I did not want to defrag file systems that did not need it. In the FreeNAS world I don't really understand the criteria.
I'd also like to create a small virtual machine to download/fetch my email that I then access for the various devices I read email on.
Any recommendations on how to set this up? I've watched some YouTube and read some of the documentation but it all seems to tell me what can be done rather than giving me advice on how to do it. The YouTube stuff I've watched all seems to be using the legacy interface which makes it harder to work out.
Any advice much appreciated.
Leo
I've installed FreeNAS on an HP N54L with 5x4TB drives and mirrored USB sticks for FreeNAS. All seems to be good but I'm lost on how to use the disks. So far I have configured one pool with RaidZ2 using the entire space but I'm not sure if that is the right thing to do? If it is, then I'm lost as to whether I should be creating datasets under this or zvols?
My requirements are quite simple. I want to store my reference info (e.g. ebooks, pdf files, magazines etc.), my music library, videos, photos, documents etc. I plan to serve the videos to Kodi players using Plex and I would like to create a small virtual machine to run Logitech Media Server (or whatever it is called these days) for my Squeezebox players.
Previously I have been using Microsoft's WHS 2011 and I partitioned the disks for each function. The primary reason for that was because some data changed frequently whilst others didn't and I did not want to defrag file systems that did not need it. In the FreeNAS world I don't really understand the criteria.
I'd also like to create a small virtual machine to download/fetch my email that I then access for the various devices I read email on.
Any recommendations on how to set this up? I've watched some YouTube and read some of the documentation but it all seems to tell me what can be done rather than giving me advice on how to do it. The YouTube stuff I've watched all seems to be using the legacy interface which makes it harder to work out.
Any advice much appreciated.
Leo