FlippedBit
Cadet
- Joined
- Aug 2, 2016
- Messages
- 4
Greetings!
First, why I'm here: My motivation is that we recently lost a very important portable HDD here at home after it was dropped. It contained all of our memories and my wife was devastated. So we ponied up and sent it off to the pros for recovery and are hoping for the best despite likely damage to the platters. All fingers crossed.
So, I vow that this will never happen to us again. ;) I'm taking this seriously; it's not just a hobby or something to tinker with. I am willing (and indeed researching) to build a NAS myself, but I will buy one if that's the best thing to do.
I'm also looking to implement a sensible backup plan, but I have no idea what that would look like yet.
To start I've got FreeNAS 9.10 running as a VM to learn the ropes. I've been through the FreeNAS documentation, as well as cyberjock's beginner's guide posted here. I've also read a number of articles about ZFS, RAIDZ, and comparisons to Btrfs. I have not gone through the Oracle ZFS documentation yet because it's very lengthy, but I intend to at some point.
I figure that once I make the decision I will effectively be locked in. If I have a sufficiently large zpool, I imagine that it will be very costly to move all that data onto a new filesystem one day.
Looking forward to chatting with you all :)
First, why I'm here: My motivation is that we recently lost a very important portable HDD here at home after it was dropped. It contained all of our memories and my wife was devastated. So we ponied up and sent it off to the pros for recovery and are hoping for the best despite likely damage to the platters. All fingers crossed.
So, I vow that this will never happen to us again. ;) I'm taking this seriously; it's not just a hobby or something to tinker with. I am willing (and indeed researching) to build a NAS myself, but I will buy one if that's the best thing to do.
I'm also looking to implement a sensible backup plan, but I have no idea what that would look like yet.
To start I've got FreeNAS 9.10 running as a VM to learn the ropes. I've been through the FreeNAS documentation, as well as cyberjock's beginner's guide posted here. I've also read a number of articles about ZFS, RAIDZ, and comparisons to Btrfs. I have not gone through the Oracle ZFS documentation yet because it's very lengthy, but I intend to at some point.
I figure that once I make the decision I will effectively be locked in. If I have a sufficiently large zpool, I imagine that it will be very costly to move all that data onto a new filesystem one day.
Looking forward to chatting with you all :)