Hello,
How can I use a single hard drive with freeNAS? And what are the alternatives if I cant?
Sure you can use a single drive with FreeNAS, people do this every day. For most people, the use
of a single drive with FreeNAS is a mistake, with a single drive there is no redundancy. If you have
no copy other than what you have stored in the drive, and the drive fails, your data is gone.
The idea with FreeNAS is to use more than one drive simply because that's why it was created.
This website is your number one source for learning how to use FreeNAS, you are welcome here.
Our resources section has much to share about how to put together hardware that will run this
free open source software, as well as how to install the OS and how to set up your drives and
keep your precious data safe. The current Stable version of FreeNAS is 11.0-U1
We also have an excellent Users Guide that is updated frequently, find the link at the top of this page.