Current System
Ubuntu 16.04.1
Linux 4.4.0-47-generic 64bit
Intel i5-4570 CPU @ 3.20GHz
120gb ssd as boot/root/swap
5x WD 4tb red in mdadm Raid5 (used to store manual backups only)
3x WD 2tb green in mdadm Raid5 (used to server media/music/plex)
1x WD 500gb blue as a disk off my 3ware SAS expander (this gets motion detected video pushed to it from a IP Camera)
Webmin
Plex
SMB sharing
mdadm
Growing concerned about bitrot/URE when rebuilding a raid array. So ZFS is on the table.
I am a novice with ubuntu but it is the only distro I have experience with but I'm comfortable and know a bit of my way around the CLI.
What attracted me to this build was off the shelf hardware, and the ability to rebuild my raid array on any machine including VM if needed. Ive had some drive failures in the past and I'm scared now of getting a URE and losing my data.
Question: I understand I can't add extra drives to the ZFS system, but can I straight up take a ZFS pool of disks to another machine and have the array work like it was in the system? Much like I can with mdadm? If I were to reinstall FreeNAS on the machine - or a new machine - and bring the disks to that machine, would they auto detect or is there alot of bullshittng around to get FreeNAS to see the old array?
This would be my biggest caveat to run ZFS/freenas - protability of the disks.
Thanks for any input.
Jay
Ubuntu 16.04.1
Linux 4.4.0-47-generic 64bit
Intel i5-4570 CPU @ 3.20GHz
120gb ssd as boot/root/swap
5x WD 4tb red in mdadm Raid5 (used to store manual backups only)
3x WD 2tb green in mdadm Raid5 (used to server media/music/plex)
1x WD 500gb blue as a disk off my 3ware SAS expander (this gets motion detected video pushed to it from a IP Camera)
Webmin
Plex
SMB sharing
mdadm
Growing concerned about bitrot/URE when rebuilding a raid array. So ZFS is on the table.
I am a novice with ubuntu but it is the only distro I have experience with but I'm comfortable and know a bit of my way around the CLI.
What attracted me to this build was off the shelf hardware, and the ability to rebuild my raid array on any machine including VM if needed. Ive had some drive failures in the past and I'm scared now of getting a URE and losing my data.
Question: I understand I can't add extra drives to the ZFS system, but can I straight up take a ZFS pool of disks to another machine and have the array work like it was in the system? Much like I can with mdadm? If I were to reinstall FreeNAS on the machine - or a new machine - and bring the disks to that machine, would they auto detect or is there alot of bullshittng around to get FreeNAS to see the old array?
This would be my biggest caveat to run ZFS/freenas - protability of the disks.
Thanks for any input.
Jay