The UPS list link is a perfect example of how too much information can provide no information at all. To my knowledge there are less than 10 big brands in the UPS market. (Among them APC) A commercial software company would just name the 10 supported brands/models and not bother with the remaining 1% of UPS's. Since we are talking open source here we do support basically everything in so doing often needlesly complicating the matters at hand. Irony? I think not, basically these are two appearances of the same (open software documentation) problem...
I can understand that, but the problem is that this product is available worldwide. If you are in the USA there's 3-4 major companies that do UPSes and that's it. Unfortunately if you leave the United States those companies are almost impossible to buy and those 100 other small-fry companies (and their models) are scattered in various quantities all over the world. At the end of the day we don't make NUT (the service that handles the UPS service) and the resources that would be required to keep that list in our manual makes it a non-starter. So we simply link to the NUT website and let you go from there.
Not to sound like a total jackwagon, but FreeNAS isn't for amateur users. My mom couldn't figure this stuff out if you have her 10 years to do it. This is advanced level stuff and arguing that you are getting too much information leads me to believe that either you aren't interested in doing your homework, you aren't capable of understanding the complexity of the situation based on your historical experience (which isn't a putdown.. I had never touched FreeBSD just 3 years ago), or you are complaining because its not dead simple. It's not my job to decide what category you are in and I have better things to do than try to figure out which one you are in.
The bottom line is that if this is so far over your head that you *are* clueless you should either be *very* interested in learning this stuff because what you don't know may cost you your data or you should consider alternate products. As you will be using ZFS, if you do something to f up ZFS your data will be gone. There are *zero* recovery tools. So either this works great forever or it works great and then you cry over lost data. There is no "I'm gonna run this recovery tool and get my data back". They don't exist. At all. The only person I know to try a recovery company paid almost $20k for 450GB of data. If you have that kind of cash please send me some.
FreeNAS and ZFS will *not* forgive you if you want to be stupid. I point people to the manual because it's in their best interest to *fully and completely* understand what they are getting into. Anything less than that would be irresponsible as it's my job to make your FreeNAS installation, setup, and use go smoothly. There are plenty of people that I have to /facepalm on because I know they'll lose their data. Many don't even get a month out and lost decades worth of data.... forever.
So do yourself, and us, a favor and make the decision to sit down and read all of this documentation so you can make a fully informed decision on what you are doing or call up Synology and look at what they have for offerings. I'd much rather you use a Synology if that's all you are capable of using than trying to use an OS that is outside of your league and costs you your data later.
Synology devices aren't terrible and my own mother could probably use one if she needed to. Not everyone can be a NAS pro. If I went to linux forums I'd be a damn noob and I'd look stupid and be told to take a hike most likely too. But for your data's sake, swallow your pride, quit complaining about what you have and don't have, and just make sure you are covering the bases. If you lose your data later and its because of something you didn't know because you chose to ignore our recommendations we're going to just say "we told ya so" and leave you dataless. We can't fix what you break because you didn't know better.
Good luck everyone but I'm unsubscribing from this thread. We're arguing over circular statements and it's just a waste of time.
