SOLVED Check to be performed right after installation

[Vortigern]

Dear All,
I will soon have a microserver running Truenas CORE and would like to make sure to perform all the preparative actions before starting using the NAS. The pool I would like to create is 4x4 TB WD Red Plus configured in RAIDz2 with LZ4 compression. I would like to properly very the following:

1. make a snapshot of the write/read performance of the new pool
   1. meant to identify possible issue due to a bad configuration or whatever
   2. this test should be local only (on the machine itself) in order to check the hardware and not the network connection
   3. I would like to store this as future reference
2. verify the network speed
   1. repeat benchmark write/read but this time to check the network speed
   2. again keep this as future reference
3. avoid infant mortality

Can anyone suggest documentation/approach to achieve this? I would also be glad if someone could point out missing test that might be worth to perform to make sure the NAS is properly configured and healthy.

Thanks in advance,
Vortigern

 

[Alecmascot]

Checkout the Resources section

 

[Vortigern]

Dear @Alecmascot,
thanks for your prompt reply. I was looking into the documentation but couldn't find the related article/section. Would you mind being more specific?

Thanks,
Vortigern

 

[Alecmascot]

Building, Burn-In, and Testing your FreeNAS system

I've been meaning to post some guidance here for a while now. We frequently see people come to the forums with hardware problems that should have washed out in the system build process, but since many of the users here are DIY'ers without...

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[Vortigern]

Dear @Alecmascot,
thanks a lot for pointing the thread! I will close this one.

Regards,
Vortigern