duder1982
Dabbler
- Joined
- Dec 22, 2015
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- 12
Hello,
A little background as it may explain why I am having troubles. I do not work with computers daily or as a trade, just as a hobby. I've always been a do-it-yourself kind of guy, but once I am over my head, i am willing to hire a professional. I've always been into home theater/media and why I decided I needed a NAS for a media server.
Back in 2017 I stumbled upon FreeNAS and set out to build a media server. I collected most of the gear in my signature minus the 8 gbs of ram and 140 gb SSD, which have recently been added. In 2017 I managed to assemble and program the server with FreeNAS and create files that I was able to access from other computers and store media. I had troubles creating Jails to get Plex up and running, so the system sat unused until now. Just yesterday I added the 4 extra sticks of ram to give me 8, I thought it would get me to 12 gb, but that's another issue to figure out. I had also added the SSD and upgraded to TrueNAS.
I'm not sure how I crated the files, not sure if I was supposed to create a pool or if I did create a pool and not just the correct way. If anyone has any good reading or videos on what pools are and how they should be created when building a server, id greatly appreciate any recommendations. Once finished upgrading to TrueNAS, I went to the pool menu where I had no Pools. I tried to create a new pool by example below, but when I do is when I received A stripe data vdev is highly discouraged and will result in data loss if it fails. First off is this the only method, and if so, what happens if I procced? Should I attempt to "import from existing Pool? I don't know/understand what a "stripe data vdev" is and why this drive or these files are this way. Is there a way to correct it? I just want a simple media server, so nothing extreme as of now. I would like to start adding more hard drives to have back up, does this stripe data need to be striped for this?
Thanks for any help.
I did perform a quick search in the forum but found nothing specific to my situation.
A little background as it may explain why I am having troubles. I do not work with computers daily or as a trade, just as a hobby. I've always been a do-it-yourself kind of guy, but once I am over my head, i am willing to hire a professional. I've always been into home theater/media and why I decided I needed a NAS for a media server.
Back in 2017 I stumbled upon FreeNAS and set out to build a media server. I collected most of the gear in my signature minus the 8 gbs of ram and 140 gb SSD, which have recently been added. In 2017 I managed to assemble and program the server with FreeNAS and create files that I was able to access from other computers and store media. I had troubles creating Jails to get Plex up and running, so the system sat unused until now. Just yesterday I added the 4 extra sticks of ram to give me 8, I thought it would get me to 12 gb, but that's another issue to figure out. I had also added the SSD and upgraded to TrueNAS.
I'm not sure how I crated the files, not sure if I was supposed to create a pool or if I did create a pool and not just the correct way. If anyone has any good reading or videos on what pools are and how they should be created when building a server, id greatly appreciate any recommendations. Once finished upgrading to TrueNAS, I went to the pool menu where I had no Pools. I tried to create a new pool by example below, but when I do is when I received A stripe data vdev is highly discouraged and will result in data loss if it fails. First off is this the only method, and if so, what happens if I procced? Should I attempt to "import from existing Pool? I don't know/understand what a "stripe data vdev" is and why this drive or these files are this way. Is there a way to correct it? I just want a simple media server, so nothing extreme as of now. I would like to start adding more hard drives to have back up, does this stripe data need to be striped for this?
Thanks for any help.
I did perform a quick search in the forum but found nothing specific to my situation.