Hi All,
FreeNAS newbie here. I'm looking for a RAID solution to my future home server and am wondering if FreeNAS is what I'm looking for but my question is around hardware failure.
I'm planning on 8 x 3TB drives into a newly built rig, with a small SSD drive to install FreeNAS on. After setting up RAID on some of those drives, suppose down the road the motherboard seizes to work, or the SSD drive no longer boots up. What happens to my RAID? Is it possible for me to take those eight 3TB drives into a completely different rig and still be able to restore the RAID and access my files?
FreeNAS newbie here. I'm looking for a RAID solution to my future home server and am wondering if FreeNAS is what I'm looking for but my question is around hardware failure.
I'm planning on 8 x 3TB drives into a newly built rig, with a small SSD drive to install FreeNAS on. After setting up RAID on some of those drives, suppose down the road the motherboard seizes to work, or the SSD drive no longer boots up. What happens to my RAID? Is it possible for me to take those eight 3TB drives into a completely different rig and still be able to restore the RAID and access my files?