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Again, thank you all so much for the help. This has been fun, informative and helpful. I'll setup SMART testing and do a ZFS snapshot. Details soon.
It's clear
Some of my decisions do defeat the purpose and that makes them mistakes. My main goal in all this has been a system that scales to handle backups, as I could very easily decide "time for 3x4TB WD Black RAID5 for recording, let's do this!" and not want to risk data loss with my rendered videos. Learning FreeNAS and being less hopeless when it comes to IT matters also doesn't hurt.
I had a Seagate backup drive, but I very quickly found out that I had been more or less scammed. Windows backup doesn't function with it, Time Machine was...well I didn't even make the attempt. Even manually copy-pasting files to it would just randomly fail. My data is fairly important to me, so I decided that it was time I do it right. I have a bunch of machines and I want to be able to back them all up, something that makes a NAS really shine. That, and FreeNAS gives me a level of control (hardware or otherwise) to scale and build exactly what I want. Five years down the line, I still want to have the same box sitting there for backups. Maybe some upgrades, but more or less, something I can keep for years upon years.
Difficult as all of this is, it's been a great little learning process for me. About two years back I had to start using the command line (shocking as that is for a computer scientist), determined to face my fears and preference for GUIs and now I really love using the command line. FreeNAS has encouraged me to broaden my horizons with the command line, so I now have experience with the command line on a variety of systems.
It's clear
Code:
pool: freenas-boot state: ONLINE scan: scrub repaired 0 in 0h2m with 0 errors on Fri Jul 17 23:48:53 2015 config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM freenas-boot ONLINE 0 0 0 da0p2 ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors pool: wdred1 state: ONLINE scan: scrub repaired 0 in 7h25m with 0 errors on Sat Jul 18 06:22:50 2015 config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM wdred1 ONLINE 0 0 0 gptid/843fd539-a8f2-11e4-8af0-448a5b8b7959 ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors pool: wdred2 state: ONLINE scan: scrub repaired 0 in 0h0m with 0 errors on Fri Jul 17 23:45:55 2015 config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM wdred2 ONLINE 0 0 0 gptid/5d32b6f1-2d00-11e5-b9b1-448a5b8b7959 ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors
Okie dokie, doing that.
Heh, now if only I were made of money... time for a third WD Red maybe...
Thank you.
You're the most concise engie i've ever met. Thank you.
Mmmm, cheers.
Well I mainly built this to scale, and with regrets upon regrets upon regrets. Like using consumer hardware in the first place. Selling the mobo and CPU is going to be fun, though i'll pull that off. And going with a single WD Red in the first place.
Some of my decisions do defeat the purpose and that makes them mistakes. My main goal in all this has been a system that scales to handle backups, as I could very easily decide "time for 3x4TB WD Black RAID5 for recording, let's do this!" and not want to risk data loss with my rendered videos. Learning FreeNAS and being less hopeless when it comes to IT matters also doesn't hurt.
I had a Seagate backup drive, but I very quickly found out that I had been more or less scammed. Windows backup doesn't function with it, Time Machine was...well I didn't even make the attempt. Even manually copy-pasting files to it would just randomly fail. My data is fairly important to me, so I decided that it was time I do it right. I have a bunch of machines and I want to be able to back them all up, something that makes a NAS really shine. That, and FreeNAS gives me a level of control (hardware or otherwise) to scale and build exactly what I want. Five years down the line, I still want to have the same box sitting there for backups. Maybe some upgrades, but more or less, something I can keep for years upon years.
Difficult as all of this is, it's been a great little learning process for me. About two years back I had to start using the command line (shocking as that is for a computer scientist), determined to face my fears and preference for GUIs and now I really love using the command line. FreeNAS has encouraged me to broaden my horizons with the command line, so I now have experience with the command line on a variety of systems.
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