I ran past my freenas box 15 minutes ago and saw a number of messages on the console. Great. I logged into the web interface and found this error: The volume tank1 state is DEGRADED: One or more devices are faulted in response to persistent errors. Checking the pool status shows this: No...

Hi all. I got an error e-mail from my freenas Device: /dev/da43, Self-Test Log error count increased from 0 to 1 I ran a long test and got these results: [root@Cvlt_CGI_Data_bck] ~# smartctl -a /dev/da43 smartctl 6.5 2016-05-07 r4318 [FreeBSD 10.3-STABLE amd64] (local build) Copyright (C)...

I have a 8x6TB RaidZ2 system. I purchased 8 new drives to increase capacity. There are spare drive slots available in the system. The system allows hot swapping (I can see the new drive.) My intention is to insert a new larger drive into an open slot, then tell the system to replace one of the...

I noticed that one of my drives was listed as "fault" and promptly restarted the system to see if the error would go away. The system came back up and the drive was "unavailable". I assumed it was a faulty drive, but switching the cable it was connected which caused a different drive to appear...

hey freeNAS community, i'm pretty new to all this and started this journey to learn, so please guide me to the correct pages to learn or help me, what i have: motherboard: msi X79A-GD45 PLUS cpu: I7-3820 @ 3.60 GHz ram: 24 GB GPU: amd HD 7950 HDD: seagate momentus 5400.6 500GB (laptop...

I have a FreeNAS system running with the following hardware: FreeNAS-9.3-STABLE-201604150515 Intel Pentium CPU G3220 @ 3.00 GHz Dual-core Intel HD Motherboard: SuperMicro MBD-X10SLL+ F-O UATX Memory 16318MB (16GB DDR3) Storage / HDs = (6) 3TB drives with 750 w Power Supply OS Running from a USB...

Hi All, Sorry in advance if this question has been asked/answered before. I created a volume lets say "volume1" using a 2TB disk in stripe mode and later I realized that I would need more space so I attached a 1TB SSD and used the option to extend this "volume1" using this disk. now I know...

I'm not to great with these things, so excuse any blatant ignorance. I'll try and explain clearly. I've setup the NAS machine, made a volume in freenas for just my 500gb ssd, and have been able to network map it. Then I setup another volume for a 3tb drive in the nas machine, and when trying to...

I had a freenas 9.3 system running with 8 drives for a couple of years with no problems. A few months ago, needed more space and the supermicro chassis I had was maxed out at 8 drives, so bought a supermicro 24 slot setup. I backed up my freenas install, installed a fresh 11.1 and put into the...

I retired 10 of my 4T drives from FressNAS and re-purposed them for Windows. I didnt do anything about those retired drives but directly connected them into Win2016 server. I was trying to format them under Windows. But for some reason, all of those 10 drives showing only as 1.6T. I know...

Can someone please explain these messages to me? (They came as part of the first nightly email report after powering on the system when I returned from vacation. The system was powered off for about 3 weeks.) freenas.pvt kernel log messages: [REMOVED] da0 at mps0 bus 0 scbus0 target 2 lun 0...

Hi dear FreeNAS Friends, sorry, I am posting quite a bit right now. I wonder if you can install FreeNAS VMs yet, but I guess the VM storage and installation will be on the added storage / pool?

Hello! I currently have to replace one drive from my raidz1 (3x3TB) which was made with WD green drives (shame!). One of them failed and I'm now looking forward to using more reliable NAS drives but I can't decide which one to buy. You can find my thread over here and see my shameful build...

Hi All, New to freenas and NAS in general. I have setup a nas using initially 6 drives (4tb Ironwolfs). One of them was DOA so i had that replaced with another and ended up recreating the pool using RAID Z2 instead of Z because of all the horror stories. So 5 drives in RAIDZ2 then expanded with...

I've got a single 3TB drive in a server, and it's out of space. I'd like to add another drive to it, but I don't want my data split across two different drives in my file system. Basically, I want to expand my "red" drive using the new 3TB drive. (shown in screenshot) I'm pretty clueless as...

So I've managed to get past my previous problems and keep working forward towards finally getting my FreeNAS build up and running. I'm finally to drive testing. So far I've run a short, conveyance and long test on all my drives as per...

Hello all, regarding to my introduction thread https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/hello-freenas-community.46345/ I have some questions to the recommended drives. My problem is, that I read RAID5/RaidZ1 is dead, because when you lost a drive and want to recreate the data with parity...