Man Bites Dog

[Hyperion]

Hi

I’ve been in the IT caper for years.
Started off working with mainframes… I hated CLI still do, I cant type for sh*t

Anyway, years later, I now run my own IT outfit.
In the past 5 years I noticed that a significant amount of HDDs were failing. Seems that the larger the capacity, the larger the likelihood of failure.

I needed a redundancy solution, without the overhead of Windows or Linux.
Stumbled onto FreeNAS / ZFS / BSD, seemed like the Nirvana of data storage. But like Kurt, it shot itself in the head. That was version 8.

Now I tested version 9.1…. on VM and it seems quite jolly. The FreeBSD seems stable.

So I bit the bullet, and built a pretty stable, fast server (see specs below).
The idea of losing 6TB for redundancy is really hard to take, but Ive read about the ZFS file system and it seems to be the way to go.

Thanks to the ppl on the forum for giving their time to explain stuff. You can read a manual 10 times, but without experience, its half baked.

Still hate typing commands via console, shh, etc, its just so 1980’s

 

[Yatti420]

Welcome..

I love ssh and the command line.. Show me where the GUI can match it in speed and I will hop right on board ;)

Did you run WDIDLE??

See ya,

 

[Hyperion]

Um, one click, while u type bullshit\