- Jul 25, 2010
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Hey all
I currently have a 4 drive homebuilt NAS using ZFS under FreeNAS. I've filled it up and have bought another 4 drives to rebuild into a new ZFS array, however I've had some recommendations that I avoid FreeNAS for various reasons and thought i'd seek opinions from people who have more experience than me (which isn't hard )
the drives are 1.5TB WD green drives so they use the 4K sectors but luckily freenas has very very recently released a beta build finally supporting that
I've been told to use opensolaris over freenas and freebsd over opensolaris hense the confusion
this is purely for home use no server operations or anything so it will be used for backup/data storage
oh and if it makes any difference i'll have 4 drives on my motherboard sata and 4 drives on a pci sata controller
thanx in advance for any help
I currently have a 4 drive homebuilt NAS using ZFS under FreeNAS. I've filled it up and have bought another 4 drives to rebuild into a new ZFS array, however I've had some recommendations that I avoid FreeNAS for various reasons and thought i'd seek opinions from people who have more experience than me (which isn't hard )
the drives are 1.5TB WD green drives so they use the 4K sectors but luckily freenas has very very recently released a beta build finally supporting that
I've been told to use opensolaris over freenas and freebsd over opensolaris hense the confusion
this is purely for home use no server operations or anything so it will be used for backup/data storage
oh and if it makes any difference i'll have 4 drives on my motherboard sata and 4 drives on a pci sata controller
thanx in advance for any help