James Quinn
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- Jan 2, 2014
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Hi everyone - this is my first post ever in a forum. I have always been able to find an answer via Google or a manual but am stumped and need some help.
I built a FreeNAS box using a motherboard with 10 sata III ports (onboard, no seperate raid or HBA controller cards) with 10 X 4tb drives.
Using ZFS Volume Manager I was able to create a RaidZ2 volume which went well except for one issue. When I clicked add volume it only took a few seconds to build? In the past I have used commercial NAS boxes using mostly raid 5 and I remember it took hours if not days to build the volumes?
When I check Active Volumes it shows healthy. I could map the volume from Windows 7 and 8 and it shows the correct amount of storage space.
I don't want to tranfer my data over until I am sure the volume is "correct." As it only took seconds to build I don't trust it is setup correctly. I deleted the volume and built it again with the same results.
I apologize in advance if the answer is here already - I may have missed it as I have limited knowledge of the correct terminology - just a newbie trying to setup a large NAS for my A/V backups. Thank you for your help.
I built a FreeNAS box using a motherboard with 10 sata III ports (onboard, no seperate raid or HBA controller cards) with 10 X 4tb drives.
Using ZFS Volume Manager I was able to create a RaidZ2 volume which went well except for one issue. When I clicked add volume it only took a few seconds to build? In the past I have used commercial NAS boxes using mostly raid 5 and I remember it took hours if not days to build the volumes?
When I check Active Volumes it shows healthy. I could map the volume from Windows 7 and 8 and it shows the correct amount of storage space.
I don't want to tranfer my data over until I am sure the volume is "correct." As it only took seconds to build I don't trust it is setup correctly. I deleted the volume and built it again with the same results.
I apologize in advance if the answer is here already - I may have missed it as I have limited knowledge of the correct terminology - just a newbie trying to setup a large NAS for my A/V backups. Thank you for your help.