Hi all,
I'm looking at freenas and i'm not 100% sure if it's the way to go for me.
What i'm looking for is a storage solution on which i'm willing (wanting) to use two disks for safety (raid 6), making me think that raidZ2 is what i'm after. (Backup yes.. and no, online backup is not an option due to the slow uploads over here..)
However, this would be storage only, not to stream movies, or run anything on it serverwise. Basically to store raw files from my camera and catalogs that i don't need to acces daily anymore. From time to time i'll need to access them, maybe not once a week, as i keep live copies of what i need on my primary pc.
Is freenas the way to go for me? Or are there better alternatives?
And if yes, do i really need the hardware i see people talking about? I've gone thru some threads and in more than a few i've seen the suggestion to use a Xeon has come up. Is this really necessary? Or would an I3 or pentium suffice for what i'm trying to do with it? Basically a glorified external hd with fault tollerance added to it.
Any help/insights are much appreciated!!
I'm looking at freenas and i'm not 100% sure if it's the way to go for me.
What i'm looking for is a storage solution on which i'm willing (wanting) to use two disks for safety (raid 6), making me think that raidZ2 is what i'm after. (Backup yes.. and no, online backup is not an option due to the slow uploads over here..)
However, this would be storage only, not to stream movies, or run anything on it serverwise. Basically to store raw files from my camera and catalogs that i don't need to acces daily anymore. From time to time i'll need to access them, maybe not once a week, as i keep live copies of what i need on my primary pc.
Is freenas the way to go for me? Or are there better alternatives?
And if yes, do i really need the hardware i see people talking about? I've gone thru some threads and in more than a few i've seen the suggestion to use a Xeon has come up. Is this really necessary? Or would an I3 or pentium suffice for what i'm trying to do with it? Basically a glorified external hd with fault tollerance added to it.
Any help/insights are much appreciated!!