![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I am aware it is far from best practices, but I installed FreeNAS on a VMware and use the 500Gb drive in a pool. Before OMV I considered this solution but I quickly understood it needed investment on hardware, and I did not want to spend too much money. When my 500Gb external USB backup drive became too small, I set up a NAS with OpenMediaVault on a Raspberry 3 and 2Tb external USB drives.Īfter regular failures (managing only 1Tb), the incremental backups became a mess and I stopped using it last year.īut now, the number of pictures I want to save is growing a lot, so I thought it could be time to give FreeNAS a try. I own a mini ITX computer bought in 2014 for gaming and software development (I5-4590, 8Gb DDR3 RAM, 1To SSD/HD hybrids Seagate drive). Hello people, nice to see I am the only newbie even nowadays :D This will allow me to play around with FreeNAS and evaluate the features available before I start building something more serious. In my case, I will probably test FreeNAS on hardware from old PCs that I have kept over the years. If it is to make a NAS build for simple needs like Plex or to experiment, consumer grade material will do the job. Quality of the support ans after-sales service?Īnd of course also by passion and for the pleasure of working with this type of equipment! Possibility to find this type of second hand hardware. Futurproof to upgrade its needs over time. Advanced features that are not necessarily available in consumer grade hardware: IPMI, ECC RAM. Of course, do not forget that NAS are not a backup solution but contribute to the global backup strategy of our data. NAS contain for many people critical data (documents, photos, creations.) and the key words are data integrity, reliability and availability on the long term. Why using server-grade hardware? Here are a few points that I've noticed and this only reflects my personal opinion: At the moment I'm looking through the different topics of this forum and the official documentation to get a feel for FreeNAS' "philosophy" and to take note of the recommendations that stand out the most. Same for me, I started to take an interest in FreeNAS a few days ago. ![]()
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