Hi all,
First post. I'm enjoying FreeNAS and feel comfortable with my 3x 1TB RAIDZ1 array. I've really played about with FreeNAS on a test machine, a Dell R320 ; pulling drives hot and cold, replacing etc. to practice how to recover from a degraded array; which went smoothly. I've read a lot about unrecoverable rebuild read errors and read users calculations on how likely this is.
My question is what is the reality of this and what happens if one gets one. My FreeNAS usage is for home. I've photos, movies, music etc. on my FreeNAS.
If I lost all my data I'd be upset.
If I lost one or two of say my honeymoon photos I'd be slightly miffed.
If I lost a few movies / music then that would just be a hassle to rip the movies again.
I've enable SMART monitoring and in the event of it reporting a ton or errors I'd network copy the data onto a different computer before going ahead with physically replacing the drive.
As an aside I've accepted that as NAS is not a backup and will soon sign up to BackBlaze B2 for a proper external backup solution.
First post. I'm enjoying FreeNAS and feel comfortable with my 3x 1TB RAIDZ1 array. I've really played about with FreeNAS on a test machine, a Dell R320 ; pulling drives hot and cold, replacing etc. to practice how to recover from a degraded array; which went smoothly. I've read a lot about unrecoverable rebuild read errors and read users calculations on how likely this is.
My question is what is the reality of this and what happens if one gets one. My FreeNAS usage is for home. I've photos, movies, music etc. on my FreeNAS.
If I lost all my data I'd be upset.
If I lost one or two of say my honeymoon photos I'd be slightly miffed.
If I lost a few movies / music then that would just be a hassle to rip the movies again.
I've enable SMART monitoring and in the event of it reporting a ton or errors I'd network copy the data onto a different computer before going ahead with physically replacing the drive.
As an aside I've accepted that as NAS is not a backup and will soon sign up to BackBlaze B2 for a proper external backup solution.