Robert76
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Hi,
I'm building FreeNAS that should play the following roles:
a) Media server with Plex
b) NAS for iMac and MAcBook Prod TimeMachine backups
c) storage for movies for PLex
d) storage for private movies from camera, photos
e) host for dockers containers (php-fpm, mariadb, nginx, php-my-admin etc...)
f) host for versioning systems, probably git (maybe also on docker container)
g) maybe virtual machine with Windows 10
My main computer is iMac and FreeNAS will be placed not more than 2m from iMac.
I know iMac can communicate with NAS over LAN but the speed will be too limited on gigabit LAN (125MBps),
my iMac is 2013 late 21" with 2 thunderbolt 1.0 ports (1 already used for 2nd screen) and access LAN over Wifi (quite fast connection with TXRate 867 Mbps),
What I'm planning is to connect iMac Ethernet port and Display port with adapter to Ethernet to 2 Ethernet ports on FreeNAS.
That should theoretically double the speed limit to 250MBps.
As I plan to have 5 WD RED 4TB disks in FreeNAS in ZSF1 (+ additional backup for most critical data via rsync to other disk) the FreeNAS should be capable to work almost twice quicker for read and write.
So my questions is what other options I have to have quicker direct connection to FreeNAS?
My motherboard have also thunderbolt link but from what I read
a) FreeNAS and FreeBSD is not supporting this
b) It is not good idea to write or read to FreeNAS directly over USB or Thunderbolt (even if it would be supported) and the flow should go via LAN shares..... so network....
Is this mean that FreeNAS by design is only NAS and trying to use it as DAS as well is problematic?
I'm building FreeNAS that should play the following roles:
a) Media server with Plex
b) NAS for iMac and MAcBook Prod TimeMachine backups
c) storage for movies for PLex
d) storage for private movies from camera, photos
e) host for dockers containers (php-fpm, mariadb, nginx, php-my-admin etc...)
f) host for versioning systems, probably git (maybe also on docker container)
g) maybe virtual machine with Windows 10
My main computer is iMac and FreeNAS will be placed not more than 2m from iMac.
I know iMac can communicate with NAS over LAN but the speed will be too limited on gigabit LAN (125MBps),
my iMac is 2013 late 21" with 2 thunderbolt 1.0 ports (1 already used for 2nd screen) and access LAN over Wifi (quite fast connection with TXRate 867 Mbps),
What I'm planning is to connect iMac Ethernet port and Display port with adapter to Ethernet to 2 Ethernet ports on FreeNAS.
That should theoretically double the speed limit to 250MBps.
As I plan to have 5 WD RED 4TB disks in FreeNAS in ZSF1 (+ additional backup for most critical data via rsync to other disk) the FreeNAS should be capable to work almost twice quicker for read and write.
So my questions is what other options I have to have quicker direct connection to FreeNAS?
My motherboard have also thunderbolt link but from what I read
a) FreeNAS and FreeBSD is not supporting this
b) It is not good idea to write or read to FreeNAS directly over USB or Thunderbolt (even if it would be supported) and the flow should go via LAN shares..... so network....
Is this mean that FreeNAS by design is only NAS and trying to use it as DAS as well is problematic?
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