Inca Rhodes
Cadet
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- Jan 27, 2013
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It's been a busy couple of weekends as I've read through the Forum How-To Guides, FreeNAS 4 N00bs, Installation, Sharing and "most" of the Manual as well as cyberjock's .ppt on VDevs...and newbie mistakes. I'm impressed with the FreeNAS environment and the quality of the information being provided to we N00bs (and those who are tackling issues I don't yet have a handle on). With FreeNAS I feel I've finally found the solution I've been looking for (and wasting entirely too much time and money on) trying to make my data "safer" than it has been while resting on an ever-expanding collection of hard drives.
I did a preliminary build with a handful of 500 GB drives to assure myself the environment is robust and to see how many mistakes I could make in a single weekend. After a few "rebuild and reconfigures" I got a bit bolder and built a larger install with 1 TB drives and satisfied myself that I could acclimate myself with the system well enough to fully commit myself to the task. So now I'm about 2 Hours away from pushing my hardware through a premeditated catastrophe (with "safe" data) to prove the hardware can survive an unexpected nightmare scenario resulting in replacing a size-limiting drive with a new larger drive, resilvering and resizing. When that's done, not only will I have the confidence that my data will be "safer", but that I understand this environment well enough to process and handle the inevitable failed drive.
Thanks to everyone who has shared their experience and insight into how to best work with FreeNAS and for helping the previous N00bs navigate this (new to me) environment. I think I'm going to really like FreeNAS and this Community!
Inca
I did a preliminary build with a handful of 500 GB drives to assure myself the environment is robust and to see how many mistakes I could make in a single weekend. After a few "rebuild and reconfigures" I got a bit bolder and built a larger install with 1 TB drives and satisfied myself that I could acclimate myself with the system well enough to fully commit myself to the task. So now I'm about 2 Hours away from pushing my hardware through a premeditated catastrophe (with "safe" data) to prove the hardware can survive an unexpected nightmare scenario resulting in replacing a size-limiting drive with a new larger drive, resilvering and resizing. When that's done, not only will I have the confidence that my data will be "safer", but that I understand this environment well enough to process and handle the inevitable failed drive.
Thanks to everyone who has shared their experience and insight into how to best work with FreeNAS and for helping the previous N00bs navigate this (new to me) environment. I think I'm going to really like FreeNAS and this Community!
Inca