Hi all!
I've been lurking around here for quite some time and finally decided to retire my old storage setup.
My story: started with just random disks and Snapraid for parity. Then mustered up the courage to try out btrfs Raid5. A few month later the horrible Raid5 bug was discovered, so I switched to a mergerfs and Snapraid setup. That setup is now at it's capacity limit, and since I really miss the flexibility of btrfs, I decided to invest in a completely new FreeNAS powered build.
I remember also looking into FreeNAS before switching to btrfs, but at that time I didn't want to invest that much money (new mainboard, error correcting RAM...). Now I figure, if I'm going down that road, I should just do it right.
I'll post my build here shortly..
I've been lurking around here for quite some time and finally decided to retire my old storage setup.
My story: started with just random disks and Snapraid for parity. Then mustered up the courage to try out btrfs Raid5. A few month later the horrible Raid5 bug was discovered, so I switched to a mergerfs and Snapraid setup. That setup is now at it's capacity limit, and since I really miss the flexibility of btrfs, I decided to invest in a completely new FreeNAS powered build.
I remember also looking into FreeNAS before switching to btrfs, but at that time I didn't want to invest that much money (new mainboard, error correcting RAM...). Now I figure, if I'm going down that road, I should just do it right.
I'll post my build here shortly..
