I really need to be reassured and advise for my 1 year old Freenas system.
MB: Asus P8 B75M/CSM
RAM: Kingston Non-ECC - 8G
Volume 1 : (2x 2T Green WD) - mirror-0 - ZFS - (my very important stuff - pictures )
Volume 2 : (1x 300G) - stripes - ZFS - ( not important stuff)
Volume 3 : (1x 2T Seagate 7200) - stripes - ZFS ( music & movies - for streaming)
I bought everything brand new, one year ago, i'm running freenas 9.1.1 and the only plugin i use is Mediaplex. Everything works perfectly and i'm very satisfied/impressed with Mediaplex, it's awesome.
My original needs were to centralize my big hardware to a closet, share/stream data with all my devices and automatically backup only the data in volume 1. That's it. I choose Freenas one year ago and i'm pretty satisfied until now (since no hard disk crashed yet... )
The problem is that, i saw a lot of writing about bad hardware resulting in the lost of data. I just realized that apparently 8G is not enough RAM, my RAM isn't ECC and mirroring (RAID 1) isn't really that safe... I really have the feeling that my system isn't gonna provide me a robust backup for my volume 1.
My questions are: is freenas overkill for my needs? Is my system hardwary as robust as a Apple Time Machine or other commercial system?
thanks
MB: Asus P8 B75M/CSM
RAM: Kingston Non-ECC - 8G
Volume 1 : (2x 2T Green WD) - mirror-0 - ZFS - (my very important stuff - pictures )
Volume 2 : (1x 300G) - stripes - ZFS - ( not important stuff)
Volume 3 : (1x 2T Seagate 7200) - stripes - ZFS ( music & movies - for streaming)
I bought everything brand new, one year ago, i'm running freenas 9.1.1 and the only plugin i use is Mediaplex. Everything works perfectly and i'm very satisfied/impressed with Mediaplex, it's awesome.
My original needs were to centralize my big hardware to a closet, share/stream data with all my devices and automatically backup only the data in volume 1. That's it. I choose Freenas one year ago and i'm pretty satisfied until now (since no hard disk crashed yet... )
The problem is that, i saw a lot of writing about bad hardware resulting in the lost of data. I just realized that apparently 8G is not enough RAM, my RAM isn't ECC and mirroring (RAID 1) isn't really that safe... I really have the feeling that my system isn't gonna provide me a robust backup for my volume 1.
My questions are: is freenas overkill for my needs? Is my system hardwary as robust as a Apple Time Machine or other commercial system?
thanks