replacing synology will this work

[Dybre]

Hello,

Thanks for reading. I have been using a synology nas for a few years but i'm tired of all the problems with it (gone thru 3 power supplies and 2 motherboards) its getting to costly to maintain. I have a few parts laying around the house.

gigabyte MW50-SVO motherboard
intel xeon 2607 v3 cpu
32 gigs ecc ram
850 watt ps
250gb mstat
corsair 800d case with 12 hot swap drive bays

now there reason I like the synology is i have 4 4tb, 3 3tb, 1 10tb drives running all together, am I going to have problems with these drives under freenas,

Thanks again.

 

[Chris Moore]

now there reason I like the synology is i have 4 4tb, 3 3tb, 1 10tb drives running all together, am I going to have problems with these drives under freenas,

If you need to ask that question, you didn't do your research. FreeNAS uses ZFS for the file system. If you want to be able to work with odd sized drives as you have in the past, but you are just not happy with Synology hardware, you need to go with xpenology

https://xpenology.org/xpenology-explained/

 

[Dybre]

ok so if I order 8 4tb drives would the hardware I have work I want to make sure my data is super safe, maybe use the Synology to save snap shots?

 

[Chris Moore]

ok so if I order 8 4tb drives would the hardware I have work I want to make sure my data is super safe, maybe use the Synology to save snap shots?

If you want to use eight 4TB drives, you could do RAIDz2, the ZFS equivalent of RAID-6, but with checksum data for every data block to protect against bit-rot. It is a reliable method of storage and it would give you about 15.9 TB of usable storage.
You could put your backups on the Synology.
Here is a good introduction to ZFS:

Slideshow explaining VDev, zpool, ZIL and L2ARC
https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...ning-vdev-zpool-zil-and-l2arc-for-noobs.7775/

Terminology and Abbreviations Primer
https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/terminology-and-abbreviations-primer.28174/