Hello all,
After reading some of the other introductions, I think the following is the best way to introduce myself.
I'm a wannabe home-labber at this point. FreeBSD since 4.4. I currently do Virtual Machines on my Ryzen workstation. Day-to-day stuff on MBP. 99.5% Windows free. Currently running FreeNAS 11.3 in a VM for testing and evaluation. Love what I am seeing so far!
I'm looking at doing a proper build for a FreeNAS box. Hardware ideas are (hopefully...) in my signature. Most hardware recommendations I'm seeing are Intel-based - which is great. My build will be AMD-based. Uses will be 1) to host virtual machines, 2) host services like Plex, 3) AFP/NFS storage shares, 4) On-site backups for laptop/workstation. Uber important documents will be backed up to the cloud (probably Google Cloud Storage at this point).
My current storage solution is a fairly old Seagate Business NAS. It never worked the best, and I don't trust it 100%. But it does host some file shares, store some backups, and I guess the streaming media thing works (or worked at one point). But, given my FreeBSD history, I lack control over that system. So, building my own FreeNAS system is probably overkill, but it sounds like fun, and has features I will definitely make use of.
Open to pretty much any feedback, especially around drive/ZFS pool configuration and snapshotting strategy.
Thanks for reading!
-slapshot5
After reading some of the other introductions, I think the following is the best way to introduce myself.
I'm a wannabe home-labber at this point. FreeBSD since 4.4. I currently do Virtual Machines on my Ryzen workstation. Day-to-day stuff on MBP. 99.5% Windows free. Currently running FreeNAS 11.3 in a VM for testing and evaluation. Love what I am seeing so far!
I'm looking at doing a proper build for a FreeNAS box. Hardware ideas are (hopefully...) in my signature. Most hardware recommendations I'm seeing are Intel-based - which is great. My build will be AMD-based. Uses will be 1) to host virtual machines, 2) host services like Plex, 3) AFP/NFS storage shares, 4) On-site backups for laptop/workstation. Uber important documents will be backed up to the cloud (probably Google Cloud Storage at this point).
My current storage solution is a fairly old Seagate Business NAS. It never worked the best, and I don't trust it 100%. But it does host some file shares, store some backups, and I guess the streaming media thing works (or worked at one point). But, given my FreeBSD history, I lack control over that system. So, building my own FreeNAS system is probably overkill, but it sounds like fun, and has features I will definitely make use of.
Open to pretty much any feedback, especially around drive/ZFS pool configuration and snapshotting strategy.
Thanks for reading!
-slapshot5