marcus2704
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I am thinking of building a Freenas VM using VMware Workstation 12, because I do not have a separate physical worksation I can dedicate. The Freenas VM would be used as storage for approx 10TB of media files, for use with my Plex server.
I have been trying out Windows Storage Spaces (Parity) but the performance is not acceptable, together with the rather odd way Microsoft implement and design the feature.
I am very keen to ensure my data can survive a disk failure, and am considering using ZFS.
I have 4 x 4TB SATA disks, can I present these directly to Freenas or would I need to create a virtual disk within VMware Workstation and present them via that method instead?
I intend to create 4 x virtual disks (situating one per physical drive) and then create a ZFS array within Freenas - would this be a redundant solution were I to lose a single 4TB disk for example?
I have been trying out Windows Storage Spaces (Parity) but the performance is not acceptable, together with the rather odd way Microsoft implement and design the feature.
I am very keen to ensure my data can survive a disk failure, and am considering using ZFS.
I have 4 x 4TB SATA disks, can I present these directly to Freenas or would I need to create a virtual disk within VMware Workstation and present them via that method instead?
I intend to create 4 x virtual disks (situating one per physical drive) and then create a ZFS array within Freenas - would this be a redundant solution were I to lose a single 4TB disk for example?