Maximum size of hard disk

[bernd67]

Hello Forum,

Maybe i should expand my Freenas Equipment..
old: 2 TB hard disks, 2 disks.

i cosnider to use bigger ones .. maybe 4 or 6 or 8 TB..
what is the biggest disk to insert into:

on an old Freenas Intel Atom D525 1,8 Ghz Platform... according to Power etc..

Thx for Information.
Bernd

 

[jgreco]

An Atom D525 is limited to 4GB of RAM. TrueNAS wants 16GB of RAM, and absolutely needs 8GB, in order to be stable. Having too little RAM is a problem in several dimensions, and can cause issues with the middleware crashing and other bad things happening.

 

[bernd67]

Thank you, jgreco for your update / comment.
how long will old freenas operating system get still security updates?
which was the last version of freenas?
what is the main difference between freenas and truenas?
as i see truenas needs lot more memory as you stated..
freenas was running fine for years on old hardware.

 

[jgreco]

FreeNAS gets security updates through the process of new releases. FreeNAS is now deprecated and has been replaced by TrueNAS Core. You should be running TrueNAS Core 12.0-U8 in order to be up to date.

FreeNAS has had a minimum memory requirement of 8GB for about a decade. I should know, I was the one who put that in the manual all those years ago. It may run on less, but there can be issues with the middleware crashing, stuff swapping, and in the old days, sometimes pool corruptions. I suspect that last is no longer an issue, but, who knows.

 

[bernd67]

ok, i understand..
i have an recent problem...
see:

Volume 1 state is Degraded. One or more devices has been removed

Hello Forum, Freenas Critical State, degraded..Volume 1 state is Degraded. One or more devices has been removed by the Administrator. Sufficient replicas exists for the pool to continue functioning in a degraded state. i do not know hard disk manufacturer as i am remote, 2 TB. Serial Nr...

www.truenas.com

- as i was able to reboot, i think its not a usb stick problem
- is it a hard disk problem with one of the HD204UI Samsung EcoGreen Disks?or a software problem?

what is the difference between pool and Volume? i have a Volume called Volume1
Most recent warning:
critical
volume volume1 state is online
one mor more devices has experienced an unrecoverable error a attemt was made to corret the error
applications are unaffected