Hey Folks,
Just thought I would share my FreeNAS success story.
I had a DNS-323 with a 1TB seagate hard drive in it since around 2009 or so.... but I was running out of space on it... fortunatly I had another external 1TB USB LACIE drive laying around, so I transferred all the data from the DNS-323 onto this extra external hard drive I had.
I also happened to be using a Western Digital Black 1TB hard drive as my Windows 8 OS drive on my main desktop computer... thankfully I had 3 older smaller hard drives laying around and I was able to install my win8 on one of those hard drives for my main computer, and pull the 1TB drive from there too.
I then bought from ncix:
1 x ASUS C60M1-I AMD Fusion APU C-60 (1.0GHz, dual core) AMD Hudson M1 Mini ITX Motherboard/CPU Combo
1 x Kingston HyperX Blu Black Series 16GB 2X8GB DDR3 1600 RAM
1 x Kingston DTSE9H/16GBZ 16GB USB 2.0 DataTraveler SE9 USB stick
2 x Seagate Barracuda ST31000524AS 7200.12 1TB SATA 32MB Cache 3.5in Internal Hard Drive
1 x Antec 430watt 80plus power supply
salvaged/had laying around
1 x 3 or 4 year old seagate 1TB drive
1 x 1 or 2 year old western digital black 1TB drive
1 x ATX antec computer case from like 2001
I downloaded FreeNAS 8.3.0-RELEASE-p1
installed it on the kingston USB stick
setup all the hardware in the case.
fired it up and configured freenas in a 4 disk RAIDZ which came out to be just under 3TB of storage capacity.
it was AWESOME!
I wired my whole house with CAT6 cable, and I connect it all together with a little 8 port dlink unmanaged green 1Gbit network switch
I couldn't believe the difference in transfer speed between FreeNAS and that crappy Dlink DNS-323
the best I could EVER get from the DNS-323 was 12-15MBytes per second read and 9-10MBytes per second write.
with the FreeNAS right off the bat I started transferring my data back to it at 45-60MBytes/Second using Windows CIFS!
then I tried the read speed back to my computer... immediatly I had 70-80MBytes/Second!
I was shocked I've never seen such network transfer speeds in my house before.
it is so awesome!
I also configured the plugins jail and setup Transmission and minidlna... both worked flawlessly!
Thanks FreeNAS folks
Just thought I would share my FreeNAS success story.
I had a DNS-323 with a 1TB seagate hard drive in it since around 2009 or so.... but I was running out of space on it... fortunatly I had another external 1TB USB LACIE drive laying around, so I transferred all the data from the DNS-323 onto this extra external hard drive I had.
I also happened to be using a Western Digital Black 1TB hard drive as my Windows 8 OS drive on my main desktop computer... thankfully I had 3 older smaller hard drives laying around and I was able to install my win8 on one of those hard drives for my main computer, and pull the 1TB drive from there too.
I then bought from ncix:
1 x ASUS C60M1-I AMD Fusion APU C-60 (1.0GHz, dual core) AMD Hudson M1 Mini ITX Motherboard/CPU Combo
1 x Kingston HyperX Blu Black Series 16GB 2X8GB DDR3 1600 RAM
1 x Kingston DTSE9H/16GBZ 16GB USB 2.0 DataTraveler SE9 USB stick
2 x Seagate Barracuda ST31000524AS 7200.12 1TB SATA 32MB Cache 3.5in Internal Hard Drive
1 x Antec 430watt 80plus power supply
salvaged/had laying around
1 x 3 or 4 year old seagate 1TB drive
1 x 1 or 2 year old western digital black 1TB drive
1 x ATX antec computer case from like 2001
I downloaded FreeNAS 8.3.0-RELEASE-p1
installed it on the kingston USB stick
setup all the hardware in the case.
fired it up and configured freenas in a 4 disk RAIDZ which came out to be just under 3TB of storage capacity.
it was AWESOME!
I wired my whole house with CAT6 cable, and I connect it all together with a little 8 port dlink unmanaged green 1Gbit network switch
I couldn't believe the difference in transfer speed between FreeNAS and that crappy Dlink DNS-323
the best I could EVER get from the DNS-323 was 12-15MBytes per second read and 9-10MBytes per second write.
with the FreeNAS right off the bat I started transferring my data back to it at 45-60MBytes/Second using Windows CIFS!
then I tried the read speed back to my computer... immediatly I had 70-80MBytes/Second!
I was shocked I've never seen such network transfer speeds in my house before.
it is so awesome!
I also configured the plugins jail and setup Transmission and minidlna... both worked flawlessly!
Thanks FreeNAS folks