WD Red 4TB - $7 to $160 rebate

salty_penguin

Dabbler

Dec 3, 2021

If you were harmed by Western Digital’s false advertising last year, you can claim damages based on the drives you purchased.

Link below.

SMR is not suitable for NAS, RAID, and especially ZFS. But that wont stop WD from taking advantage of the freenas community!

Western Digital to Settle SMR HDD False Advertising Class Action Lawsuit

$2.7 million settlement headed to the judge

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Hostname: tarbell.local
OS: TrueNAS 12

8 x 6Tb Ironwolf HDD's in 1 Pool made from 4 Mirrored VDevs

Connected by a pair of SAS SFF-8087 to 4xSATA breakout cables to a

LSI Logic SAS 9207-8i Storage Controller flashed in IT mode attached to a PCIE 3.0 x16 slot (running at x8) in a
MSI x470 Gaming Plus Max Motherboard powered by a
Ryzen 5 3600 CPU - 6 cores, 12 threads fed by
64Gb ECC DDR4 RAM - 4 x16GB sticks of Crucial UDIMM STD 16GB 2Rx8 2666 MTA18ASF2G72AZ-2G6E2
10 Gigabit SFP+ NIC - 10GTek X520-10G-1S in the remaining PCIE 3.0 x8 slot

connected via copper DAC to

Ubiquity EdgeSwitch ES-16-XG 16 port managed 10 gigabit switch at the heart of the network. No bottlenecks here.
120Gb Inland Professional SATA SSD Boot Drive connected directly to the main board

Because I'm a fan of quality products at affordable prices.

The case is then wrapped around the parts and cables and duct-taped together in a sturdy corrugated packing carton.
1Gbe on-board network port is connected via ethernet for WOL/Out-of-band Management in a separate physical network

Other nodes on the network/private cloud consist of

pfSense firewall router / home VPN server
A mid-2011 iMac running High Sierra
3 x Dell Optiplex 7010 SFF Proxmox hypervisors with 10Gbe
A small number of AP's & VoIP phones on PoE
A few wireless laptops on and off the network for work, learning, lab, and personal projects.

I use my TrueNAS server as a

Personal cloud storage
Apple TimeMachine backup
Photo & Document Archive and storage
Media Server
VM Storage over NFS for .qcow images
Collection of iso's

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My experience with ZFS and TrueNAS is less than 1 year
Currently hold CompTIA certifications in Linux+, Security+, Network+ and A+
Current projects:
Configure a LDAP/Kerberos Identity access management & certificate management solution for the lab
Configure a log server to centralize reporting
Configure internal email/messaging system, then self-host my own email server from my private cloud.

Important Announcement for the TrueNAS Community.

WD Red 4TB - $7 to $160 rebate

salty_penguin

Dabbler

Western Digital to Settle SMR HDD False Advertising Class Action Lawsuit

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