Storage setup for small home build

[SweetAndLow]

If you read it, people are seriously upset (which is at bit weird I honestly have to say) about installing on that hardware. And it can't be because of performance, because that was just fine on my first install on that hardware. So I assume it was dataloss concerns. After all thats the hole point of a NAS, ceeping your data safe.

I think what you are seeing is people suggesting different things because what you wanted to do with the system with the hardware you had showed that you needed to do some more reading.

For example working off your first post. You mention using a slog device, a slog will not do anything in your system so i would ask that you go research why you would use on and what workflows would benefit from it. Next you talk about plex, for plex to work well you need min 16GB of memory and a faster processor. You have neither of those things so it's really confusing as to why you think plex will work well. You also mention sleeping your system which is a terrible idea also. Disks that spin up and down will use more power and have more wear and tear on them in the long run. Keeping a system running is much kinder on the hard drives and could even use less power in some cases.

Throughout this thread you keep talking about these big systems that people run but that isn't the problem. The problem is that your hardware should probably just be thrown in the trash. It has nothing to do with FreeNAS being used for business. If you look in my signature there is my first build and this is the perfect example of a simple home NAS server. My second build is also a home server but little overkill because I just think it is fun.

I hope this clears up a few things and I'm glad you are running windows because I suspect you will have a much better experience. When/If you ever want to upgrade your system I suggest you look into FreeNAS again. FreeNAS offers filesystem features that windows can never do. FreeNAS checksums and validates all data so things like bitrot can not happen. FreeNAS also will have better performance, data redundancy and expandability in the long run.

Hi, so I have installed freenas and learned allot. I have read the manual and I feel I now have som basic understanding of the system.

I am about to redo the install after learning from my first install. And this leads to a question that I can't figure out.

**I would like to have the OS on a smal SSD. (this because I cant get my 7 year old motherboard to boot on USB)
**And a main storage pool whit a mirror 2*3TB
**And one more SSD containing Jails and SLOG. (Here is where my question lays)

Want this setup because of the following.

1. fast plex indexing
2. Syslog outside of the main pool so they can go to sleep and me quiet not in use. (probably 90% of the time frenas will not be used)

I understad in big systems whit heavy load this setup is not optimal. You want a fast SLOG being on its on SSD, you want a mirrored SSD and so on and forth. But would not this setup be a good middle ground for a home user like me if you think of the general pros and cons?

 

[CraigD]

Okay, you are probably right. FreeNAS is something more suited fore larger solutions and not really ment for home users.

I will try this out more before I say to much.

But I have spent nothing on this so I have noting to lose. I will try install the way I described, test it out for a while and then I will report back.

Your right you have nothing to loose, if and only if you keep a current copy of your data elsewhere, freeNAS tends to work on non-recommended hardware fine, until it doesn't

FreeNAS is a great storage solution for home users and doesn't have to cost much, a TS140 with additional RAM and you have a server that will outperform any off the shelf NAS

FreeNAS is a ZFS-based NAS. Windows is a desktop operating system that can act as a fileserver, but it does not have ZFS or the data protection that provides. It might seem to do the same thing on the surface, but underneath, they have very different architectures and goals.

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