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[Bkomnimon]

and join the tea party of my mind sir and madams :)

My name is Mark or Bunny. I'm a silly guy but can be serious when comes to things that interest me. I'm not that familiar with Linux but I'm wanting to learn a few key things due to my exposure to parts. Trying to figure LDAP and open source storage is my current goals.

I used to work with CCC&TI's Regional VMware academy as a background teacher assistant/ tech support ,part time while going as a student, for the participant's taking our classes online. Now I work there as an evening tech part time there.

Anyway they used Openfiler to make iSCSI luns with in their virtual environment and well I been meaning to make my own storage box.

Spec below it bare ram I know but just testing before ram upgrade and get hard drives around black Friday.


System Name FreeNas
Version # FreeNAS-8.3.1-RELEASE-p2-x64 (r12686+b770da6_dirty)


Model HP Pavillion a6357c


CPU AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ 47 °C
RAM 2.00 GB Single-Channel DDR2 @ 376MHz (6-6-6-18)
Slot #1 Type DDR2 Size 2048 MBytes
Manufacturer Nanya Technology Max Bandwidth PC2-6400 (400 MHz)

Motherboard ECS Nettle2 (Socket M2 )
One PCI Express x16
One PCI Express x1
Two PCI

Hard Drives
USB 4gb with Free Nas image
156GB Seagate ST316081 5AS SCSI Disk Device (ATA) 39 °C
156GB Seagate ST316081 5AS SCSI Disk Device (ATA) 33 °C
156GB Seagate ST316081 5AS SCSI Disk Device (ATA) 34 °C

NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller (onboard) 100mb :/

Any pointers I'm open to suggestions. I thinking about going with red 3tb drive maybe 2 if budget can stand. Also got to get a GB card for this probably maybe a raid card.

As far as setup just using iSCSI for now (xp pro and win 7 pros so isci initiators) right now just one at time haven't had the whole network up testing the connections.

 

[Yatti420]

Welcome to FreeNAS!

Is your primary network only fast ethernet capable 100 Mbit/s? Alot more ram if you plan on using ZFS.. With your background I'm sure you are reading the manual already..

http://www.freenas.org/images/resources/freenas8.3.1/freenas8.3.1_guide.html

Having a gigabit network and alot more ram would be my primary focus..

Edit: Whoops thought you were up on 9x.. I amended the freenas guide link..

 

[Bkomnimon]

My primary is only 100 Mbit/s however I've got a small back side gigabit network just not gigabit card for this one yet. Sadly it's just a 2008ish desktop so max is 8gb ram just running disk extents for now. Yep I've glanced over a few sections for late night reading :)

9.x was only beta at time and I didn't have a spare system. Once I feel comfortable I'll update it.

Should I just got hardware raid for the critical stuff eventually due to the low ram?