Recover 6 year old drives?

[easycheese]

So I have a project that I've had on the back burner...I built a NAS back in 2011 using FreeNAS and haven't used it since 2012 or so. I think it has some files on it that I've been looking for. Can I just load the latest FreeNAS version on a thumb drive and boot it up?

 

[garm]

I wouldn’t. Are you sure you used ZFS for the drives?

 

[easycheese]

I honestly don't remember. I know I had two drives setup in some sort of RAID setup...

 

[garm]

2011 is ancient , I would try and find the same train you had on there to start with. After 6 years on a shelf there is no guarantee the drives will even spin up. A new version of FreeNAS might make to many assumptions.

 

[Ericloewe]

There's no harm in trying modern FreeNAS. But you might want to try 9.2.1.9 instead, as that supports UFS.

 

[gpsguy]

Please provide detailed hardware information regarding your server. Do you have at least 8 GB of RAM. Depending on when it was in 2011, it might have been running FreeNAS 0.7 which became NAS4free. It"s RAM requirements were smaller than FreeNAS