Read most of the manual, posts (including cyberjocks 66-page PPT), articles and vids.
Prior to all that I just read a few after seeing a TWIT vid that made FN seem so easy. Good thing an older box which i intended for FN isn't 64bit ready and had to build a new one. Only started seeing the forum after it opened for new registrants.
Have 5x2tb seagates, 4th gen intel 3..2 Ghz dual core, 16gb RAM, entry level Asus board. I have successfully installed and created one VDEV RaidZ (a few times in fact) to be sure. The volume is seen on my Mac and PC but cannot write into them despite signing into it and double checking sharing permissions for both CIFS and AFS.
AFTER READING the ppt of cyberkock it seems my setup is still lacking... All my components PSU, UPS are good brands but NIC isn't Intel and RAM may not be ECC.
Should I go for it? Or maybe go for the simpler route like windows 8.1 storage spaces on NTFS or mirror on ReFS?
I'm looking for something perhaps at least as fast as NTFS over giga Ethernet and good redundancy. Reading through it all was quite interesting but I'm still wary that I can be "a statistic."
I just lost two 1tb+ drives with archived files from old clients and old family photos and vids. Disks are currently with a prof data recovery company. Frankly, I don't want that happening again. Recovery isn't assured and rates are steep.
Advise from experienced FN users and ZFS/ RAID experts HOW TO GO FORWARD will be really appreciated. : )
Prior to all that I just read a few after seeing a TWIT vid that made FN seem so easy. Good thing an older box which i intended for FN isn't 64bit ready and had to build a new one. Only started seeing the forum after it opened for new registrants.
Have 5x2tb seagates, 4th gen intel 3..2 Ghz dual core, 16gb RAM, entry level Asus board. I have successfully installed and created one VDEV RaidZ (a few times in fact) to be sure. The volume is seen on my Mac and PC but cannot write into them despite signing into it and double checking sharing permissions for both CIFS and AFS.
AFTER READING the ppt of cyberkock it seems my setup is still lacking... All my components PSU, UPS are good brands but NIC isn't Intel and RAM may not be ECC.
Should I go for it? Or maybe go for the simpler route like windows 8.1 storage spaces on NTFS or mirror on ReFS?
I'm looking for something perhaps at least as fast as NTFS over giga Ethernet and good redundancy. Reading through it all was quite interesting but I'm still wary that I can be "a statistic."
I just lost two 1tb+ drives with archived files from old clients and old family photos and vids. Disks are currently with a prof data recovery company. Frankly, I don't want that happening again. Recovery isn't assured and rates are steep.
Advise from experienced FN users and ZFS/ RAID experts HOW TO GO FORWARD will be really appreciated. : )