Crash when copying files

[Andy Graves]

Just one word to add...

"FreeNAS is an operating system that can be installed unrealiably on virtually any hardware platform to share computer data storage over a computer network."

sorry couldn't resist...

 

[pirateghost]

Just one word to add...

"FreeNAS is an operating system that can be installed unrealiably on virtually any hardware platform to share computer data storage over a computer network."

sorry couldn't resist...

But given the right combination of hardware, it runs beautifully

 

[Andy Graves]

I hope so once, I can track down the right hardware...

 

[Ericloewe]

Someone at iX should have a word with Marketing.

Because that'll never work, they should have an accomplice set up a fake FreeNAS website just for Marketing, while they're distracted, and set up a new, non-bullshitty page for everyone else.

 

[pirateghost]

I hope so once, I can track down the right hardware...

Which is why we have a hardware recommendation thread. Stuff that has been actually vetted by this community of volunteers...

 

[gpsguy]

Please don't shoot the messengers here. We are trying to help you succeed.

Most of us have no affiliation with iXsystems and provide support out of the goodness of our hearts.

The only reward we might see is an occasional "thank you" from a user like yourself.

Really?

Sent from my phone

 

[Andy Graves]

As a newbie, I took took the information from the freeness.org website as gospel. I do appreachate the input from you guys, I am just a bit pissed that I have bought the wrong hardware and my FreeNAS has been crashing every other day for weeks. If the website has warned how critical the hardware selection was. things would have been a lot different I feel.

 

[anodos]

Exactly. This is why we need changes to the website.

Well, considering that the guidelines for the current 'logo contest' state:

These servers can be as simple as an old computer you have at home...

indicates that there is a disconnect between some members of ixsystems (*cough* marketing *cough*) and the non-marketing members. It's fairly easy to tell which members maintain the website.

Josh Paeztel has a very good series on building a FreeNAS server here: http://www.freenas.org/whats-new/20...design-part-i-purpose-and-best-practices.html

 

[Mirfster]

I never looked at the "Hardware Requirements" page before, just got lucky and hit the forums first I guess... Now that I just did, I must admit I am a little confused as well:

FreeNAS is designed to be installed on commodity x86 hardware

* FreeNAS no longer supports 32-bit hardware. The last FreeNAS Release with 32-bit hardware support was FreeNAS 9.2.1.9. This release also supported the UFS filesystem. Deployments on 32-bit hardware using UFS had lower hardware requirements of a 4GB boot device and 4GB of RAM. PLEASE NOTE that further security and stability updates to the 9.2.1.x branch are not guaranteed.

 

[Ericloewe]

I never looked at the "Hardware Requirements" page before, just got lucky and hit the forums first I guess... Now that I just did, I must admit I am a little confused as well:

Well, x86 just means "anything halfway modern from Intel or AMD". Because no modern OS can actually run on an 8086. If you want to be really pedantic, the 32-bit version is compiled for the i386 architecture (or something later, probably. P5 at least, I'd imagine).

 

[anodos]

I never looked at the "Hardware Requirements" page before, just got lucky and hit the forums first I guess... Now that I just did, I must admit I am a little confused as well:

The FAQ used to say that the minimum RAM requirement for FreeNAS was 2GB. https://bugs.freenas.org/issues/6388
So it could be worse...

 

[Mirfster]

Sure, make me go look up "pedantic"...

 

[anodos]

Sure, make me go look up "pedantic"...

Just make sure you do that through tor.

 

[Ericloewe]

Just make sure you do that through tor.

Now now, it's evil to waste people's time by implying something might not be appropriate. ;)