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Cool, thanks for clearing that up for me :)
My dad is a world-class planner, and will often spend much longer figuring out exactly how a project will be accomplished than actually carrying it out. I envy that, but I'm still pretty impulsive and rash sometimes... Yesterday I saw that WD EasyStore 8TB external drives were selling for $160 at BestBuy. 4TB drives are $130, so for $30 extra I get twice the capacity, which sounds like a deal to me.
I bought four and shucked them. I'd never shucked drives before, but it was pretty straightforward, and I wound up with four red-label 256MB cache NAS drives.
So now I'm thinking about arrangements. Both Raidz2 and mirrors would apparently achieve 50% capacity, and I've read that mirrors in cases like this perform faster.
I'm also considering getting a few more drives while they're on sale and just having way more capacity than I know what to do with.
And I installed FreeNAS 11.1 on a virtual machine and am playing around with it. Right now it has 4x 8GB disks in Raidz2.
My dad is a world-class planner, and will often spend much longer figuring out exactly how a project will be accomplished than actually carrying it out. I envy that, but I'm still pretty impulsive and rash sometimes... Yesterday I saw that WD EasyStore 8TB external drives were selling for $160 at BestBuy. 4TB drives are $130, so for $30 extra I get twice the capacity, which sounds like a deal to me.
I bought four and shucked them. I'd never shucked drives before, but it was pretty straightforward, and I wound up with four red-label 256MB cache NAS drives.
So now I'm thinking about arrangements. Both Raidz2 and mirrors would apparently achieve 50% capacity, and I've read that mirrors in cases like this perform faster.
I'm also considering getting a few more drives while they're on sale and just having way more capacity than I know what to do with.
And I installed FreeNAS 11.1 on a virtual machine and am playing around with it. Right now it has 4x 8GB disks in Raidz2.