I am not sure if this is normal but i run several freenas units that are configured with mirrored volumes and i run freenas replication to other units that are configured with Z2 volumes. the problem have is that the space from the mirrored units doubles on the Z2 units, when i replicate the...

LSI SAS 9207-8i IT Mode LSI00301 Info: Should I update the firmware version at all? From what I have gathered by reading through forum posts is that if I see "mps" I am in luck as my LSI HBA card is definitely flashed to IT Mode. I am currently troubleshooting slow raid-z2 SMB read speeds...

I have 4 disks (4x1 TB) which I was planning to set up as raid 10...Is this just terminology ? I spent some time lookig through forums, and this seems like it is not an option .. I only see the Raidz2 option, but it doesn't seem the same as Raid 10 ... It doesn't really matter to me - I am...

Hi All, Build: FreeNAS-11.1-U6 System use: Veeam Backup repository / Template VM’s (that are just deployed to our primary storage from there) - no live workloads on the system We built a FreeNAS storage server in a 24 drive Supermicro chassis last year (With the excellent of advice of some...

I have a drive currently resilvering that is taking a LONG time. The TL;DR version: The pool is a 8x6TB RAIDZ2, and is 81% full. I am trying to replace a drive in the array with a shucked WD Blue (WD60EZAZ). The resilver has been running for 2 days already. The write speed is dropping...

I'm planning to build an all SSD pool for various storage (vm's, database, static files etc...), and I often run in to the TRIM-thing and garbage collection painted as a big issue with SSD's. I'm not sure if this information is obsolete or not. The FreeNAS documentation does not help me that...

Hi, I have used FreeNAS for a while now for home storage and Plex use but recently I was able to take home from work an HP server and a storage shelf. I have 30x 600GB 10K 2.5" drives in these systems total and all in one raid, RaidZ2. I was wondering if someone knew what the max read/write...

Hello, I'm hoping to get some advice on how to properly configure the volumes on two new freeNAS devices. We always receive our NASes with a pre-configured volume setup, see attached. We prefer RaidZ2, and I've recently read that you want your vdevs to have a number of drives equal to a power of...

I have a raidz2 array of 6 x 4tb wd reds. One of the drives are now reporting smart failures so I contacted the retailer for an rma. They would like me to send in the drive for evaluation and repair. Freenas would report the array as degraded when I remove the drive, but would it be fine to run...

I have a raidz2 in FreeNAS 11.1 that has been running great for quite a while but I noticed the other day one of my drives was beginning to fail as the Offline_Uncorrectable value began to steadily increase over the past couple days and had gotten to about 9k when my new drive arrived. Mind you...

I am purchasing an HP DL380g8 with 12 drive bays. I want to start off by doing a raidZ2 with 4 drives, then have the ability to add a single drive to the pool for space, not caring about having additional redundancy. Is it possible to create a raidZ2 pool with 4 drives, and just add drives to...

Hi everyone, So a quick back of the napkin question here - I have a freenas server with 8 4TB drives setup into one raidz2 volume. Now, some very rough calculations would give the machine 32TB of raw storage space to begin with, then subtract 8TB for the raidz2 - leaving 24TB. Again, rough - I...

Hello, i migrated from CentOS file server RAID5 (4x4TB) to FreeNAS with same disks few days ago. Changed to ZFS and created RAID-Z2. Today I added fifth 4TB drive and expanded volume as a "stripe". I feel it was wrong choice be cause the new drive shows up separately as "stripe". Can someone...

Hello so I have an encrypted raidz2 pool with a faulted drive (da0). I wanted to upgrade the entire array, but ran into snags. What I did was, detach the entire array, reboot, and attempt to get the new drives to work. The new 12TB SAS drives appear to not spin up; I think that is a "pin3...

Hi all, I've got a FreeNAS 11.1 file server, which I'm shipping to New Zealand (I'm moving there). It has a single raidz2 volume, based around 4 1TB SSDs. As insurance for the data, I've bought 4 new 1TB SSDs and my intention was to create a backup. I thought the correct way to do this was to...

Hey all, Having some issues with my box, hopefully someone could point me in the right direction. Background: - Been using the system for about 6 or more years. Never really had any major problems. No changes hardware wise apart from the occasional hard disk replacement and boot usb change. -...

I have a raidz2 that I've had to replace a couple disks on. It consists of 8 6TB drives. That stuff all looks okay to me, but under the storage tab it shows that I'm using 29.2 TB and 14.3 TB free (43.5 TB total). FreeNAS says that a 6 TB drive yields about 5.46 TB. At 8 drives that...

Hi all, I am running FreeNAS-11.1-U1 and have 16 (1.5 and 2.0TB mixed) drives in a raidz2 pool. I recently had what I believe to be a faulty sata cable causing a device to pop online and offline over and over again. I have replaced the affected disk and the sata cable and it has left my pool...

I noticed an issue with my rsync speeds to my RAIDZ2 pool. I typically would've gotten 50MB/s but now I can barely write more than single MBps. My pool is nearly 100% capacity so I expected some performance degradation but I still have 150GBs of free space and not for my performance to fall...

Hey, I have a 3TB mirror array but it after reaching the 80% usage limit. Im just wondering if i was to add another 1 or 2 disks to the array could upgrade it to a RAIDZ1 or RAIDZ2 array or will i have to copy everything off an create another array from scratch? If yes, how would i go about...

I'm putting together a FreeNAS server and before purchasing drives I have one question please : Would 5 x 4tb or 6 x 3tb drives be a better configuration for RAIZ2 with >10Tb of usable storage. Both will achieve my capacity amount and I would prefer to use less drives but if 6 drives has a...

I'm on a budget and only have 5 3TB Hard Drives lying around, but I want to at least get 12TB of storage. This is just going to be a test pool for now with some simple and already backed up things stored on it, but going forward if this does end up turning into a more heavily relied on storage...

Subject pretty much explains it. But here is what is happening. I have an 8 disk (6TB/disk) Z-RAID(2) setup and when I do an SNMP walk on the FREENAS-MIB, I always get the total disk-space for the pool instead of usable disk-space. I.E. snmpwalk -O s -v 2c -c public -t 100 <IPADDRESS> FREENAS...

I am planning on upgrading my freenas box. Just upgraded the RAM/ CPU and will also be moving to v11U2 as well. My current specs are below. FreeNAS-8.3.1-RELEASE-x64 (r13452) ASUS P8Z68 - i7-3770, 32GB DDR3 RAIDZ2: WD60EFRX x 4 (WD Red) RAIDZ HDS724040ALE640 x 2 (Archive-Normally spun down)...

I am new to FreeNAS so I am asking a quick question of the experts. I have searched through this forum but not found exactly the answers I was looking for. I have FreeNAS 11 running 2x4tb WD Red Drives in a mirror. The system is basically a media server and carries all my media. I also have an...

Hello, I am new...actually, this is my first thread. So quite new. Anyway, I want to build a FreeNAS server....maybe down the line 2, so I can have a dedicated backup of the original. I plan on using it for PLEX and most notably for my photos, music and videos. I photograph weddings, sometimes...

I'm building up my FreeNAS server and I found a way to squeeze and extra drive into the case for a total of 7 drives instead of 6. I had planned on using RAIDZ2. Is it still adequate to use RAIDZ2 if I use 7 drives? Also, is there any issue with having a odd number of drives with RAIDZ2? Thank...

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...

Hi everybody, I'm new to this community and just ordered the parts for my first freenas system. I have 2x 3tb new disks and 2x 3tb disks with data already on it. I would like to end up with a 4 disk raidz2 with the data on it without buying more disks or upload and download 6tb to some...

Would you help me? I have a freenas in Raidz2, with 4 HD's of 2TB. One of them gave a problem, I changed the defective hard drive and did a "replace", it worked fine, except that I had to change this HD again because the defective was for the warranty and it came back, in that second exchange I...

Good night! Would you help me? I have a FreeNAS in Raidz2, with 4 HD's of 2TB. One of them gave a problem, I changed the defective hard drive and did a "replace", it worked fine, except that I had to change this HD again because the defective was for the warranty and it came back, in that...

Hello, I am new to the forum and my knowledge of FreeNAS is limited. I had help with setting up my server from the start and did not have to understand a lot about the system at the time. I have used FreeNAS for about 1 year and my current setup is the first instance of me running a NAS. When...

Hi there. I am building a Server/NAS mainly for storage purposes (mainly movies, music and RAWs from my entire family) and would appreciate your input regarding sufficient hardware. What I own already: Case: Lian-Li PC-D8000 (enormous cube case) http://www.lian-li.com/en/dt_portfolio/pc-d8000/...

Hi everyone, I am testing my new Freenas with old drives just so i kan mess it up and i won't loose any data. It is fun and much faster then my ReadyNAS. My hardware: AMD A8-7600 ASRock FM2A88X Pro3+ 32Gb RAM DDR3 1600 Crusial Blistix Sport CL9 (2kits of 2x8GB) 16Gb USB3 for FreeNAS HDD's will...

I have a feeling that this question has been asked before but I couldn't find it anywhere. I have a two 3 TB drives mirrored FreeNAS setup with data on the drives. I have added a new 3 TB drive to the computer. I cannot figure out how to add that drive to the existing setup. When I initially ran...