Guinea
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I am a bit confused on this terminology. I am following the User Guide and trying to understand what to build and how to configure it. Here is my goal and maybe someone could point me to a more specific instructional blog or something that follows what I am trying to accomplish:
I have a 24 bay NAS. I have 8 drives populated with 4TB WD Red drives. I have FreeNAS 11 running now on a 120GB SSD. The main purpose is for me to use ZFS (Raid2?) to make my setup expandable. I want to use all 8 drives for a single vdev and when it fills up, I want to be able to add 2 more vdevs with the same drive types and sizes in 8 drive additions (8 drives per vdev and 24 bays, so I can do 2 more expansions). I am confused on how to set this up. I made a single volume (sco_data_vault). I can see it in storage, but I don't see how to create the vdev. I also see a jails location.
The main goal of the NAS is to run a Plex Media Server. So I would need to do a jail and/or install the Plex plugin. I am not sure how that stuff works. Do I put the jail on the storage volume? Do I have it on a separate USB stick somewhere else? I assumed I couldn't put it on the boot drive. And then how do I connect to the volume as a mapped network drive/directory structure from my Windows PC. I don't see the syntax to access it and it is a bit confusing.
These may be simple questions, but I am just trying to read through the documentation and understand and it is a bit confusing the first time.
I have a 24 bay NAS. I have 8 drives populated with 4TB WD Red drives. I have FreeNAS 11 running now on a 120GB SSD. The main purpose is for me to use ZFS (Raid2?) to make my setup expandable. I want to use all 8 drives for a single vdev and when it fills up, I want to be able to add 2 more vdevs with the same drive types and sizes in 8 drive additions (8 drives per vdev and 24 bays, so I can do 2 more expansions). I am confused on how to set this up. I made a single volume (sco_data_vault). I can see it in storage, but I don't see how to create the vdev. I also see a jails location.
The main goal of the NAS is to run a Plex Media Server. So I would need to do a jail and/or install the Plex plugin. I am not sure how that stuff works. Do I put the jail on the storage volume? Do I have it on a separate USB stick somewhere else? I assumed I couldn't put it on the boot drive. And then how do I connect to the volume as a mapped network drive/directory structure from my Windows PC. I don't see the syntax to access it and it is a bit confusing.
These may be simple questions, but I am just trying to read through the documentation and understand and it is a bit confusing the first time.