sidudi
Cadet
- Joined
- Jun 10, 2015
- Messages
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Hello
First, please excuse my writing. English is my second language the there will be some horrible structured sentences ;)
Am I a novice? Hell, yeah. FreeBSD is all new to me. Originally I found my way around a Commodore64, then did my first BasicA code in DOS on a AT03, later switched to Pascal and C. My first self-constructed PC was an 8086 with 128MB RAM and a 10MB drive for the price of a small car :)
At that time there was a worldwide-amateur-network called FIDO where I was part of the backbone structure in Europe. Yeah and all that with 2x80MB storage at $900 each and a superfast 9600bps dialup-modem.
Somehow I gave up on PC's and did different things. I had other priorities and I was just a "user".
During the last holiday season I had some spare time and since my 6-year-old LaCie 4TB box was pretty filled up I gave it some thought installing a "real" NAS. Of course I also wanted to know if I could pull it off again. The past two decades, besides replacing a harddrive here and there, I didn't see the inside of a box.
This forum became like a second home for many days and nights but I never registered as a user since I was just reading and learning, and more reading and more learing.
The whole installation process went quite smooth and I am happy with the results. Of course I had troubles here and there but nothing "too serious". Hats off to all the cracks in this forum and their effort to help!
My setup for now is:
Supermicro X9-SCM-F
Intel Xeon E3-1220 V2
2x8GB Kingston DDR3 EEC
4x2TB Seagate RAIDZ
plus 1TB+500GB older disks from previous systems configured as stripe
Next to FreeNas as the base I am running several plugins like transmission, plexconnect, owncloud etc.
Why the stripe-config? Because I had no additional money left to buy another two 2TB drives and go with a 6x2TB setup. I wanted to setup the ZFS pool with 6 drives for future expansation. The idea is to replace those someday with 2TB drives and grow the RAID array.
I use the NAS manly for my photo/movie/music database and for common storage between my computers and those of my wife.
Between February and April I have completely switched to FreeBSD-based systems. My Windows-PC is gone, my iMac is gone (replaced with FreeBSD and PC-BSD) and I have even replaced my Netgear router with a pfSense setup.
Why registering as a user now?
Well, just reading the forum doesn't cut it anymore. I can't find the info by myself and I need some serious help.
Thanks again for all the support by this community even though I have never written anything.
Dominik aka Sidudi
First, please excuse my writing. English is my second language the there will be some horrible structured sentences ;)
Am I a novice? Hell, yeah. FreeBSD is all new to me. Originally I found my way around a Commodore64, then did my first BasicA code in DOS on a AT03, later switched to Pascal and C. My first self-constructed PC was an 8086 with 128MB RAM and a 10MB drive for the price of a small car :)
At that time there was a worldwide-amateur-network called FIDO where I was part of the backbone structure in Europe. Yeah and all that with 2x80MB storage at $900 each and a superfast 9600bps dialup-modem.
Somehow I gave up on PC's and did different things. I had other priorities and I was just a "user".
During the last holiday season I had some spare time and since my 6-year-old LaCie 4TB box was pretty filled up I gave it some thought installing a "real" NAS. Of course I also wanted to know if I could pull it off again. The past two decades, besides replacing a harddrive here and there, I didn't see the inside of a box.
This forum became like a second home for many days and nights but I never registered as a user since I was just reading and learning, and more reading and more learing.
The whole installation process went quite smooth and I am happy with the results. Of course I had troubles here and there but nothing "too serious". Hats off to all the cracks in this forum and their effort to help!
My setup for now is:
Supermicro X9-SCM-F
Intel Xeon E3-1220 V2
2x8GB Kingston DDR3 EEC
4x2TB Seagate RAIDZ
plus 1TB+500GB older disks from previous systems configured as stripe
Next to FreeNas as the base I am running several plugins like transmission, plexconnect, owncloud etc.
Why the stripe-config? Because I had no additional money left to buy another two 2TB drives and go with a 6x2TB setup. I wanted to setup the ZFS pool with 6 drives for future expansation. The idea is to replace those someday with 2TB drives and grow the RAID array.
I use the NAS manly for my photo/movie/music database and for common storage between my computers and those of my wife.
Between February and April I have completely switched to FreeBSD-based systems. My Windows-PC is gone, my iMac is gone (replaced with FreeBSD and PC-BSD) and I have even replaced my Netgear router with a pfSense setup.
Why registering as a user now?
Well, just reading the forum doesn't cut it anymore. I can't find the info by myself and I need some serious help.
Thanks again for all the support by this community even though I have never written anything.
Dominik aka Sidudi
