Chris230291
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- Mar 21, 2012
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Hi guys. First of all this might not be the best place to ask this question but I trust the community is professional and not biased.
For some time now my hardware hasnt been good enough to continue getting what I want out of it and FreeNAS. I cant run docker or VM's and as my requirements keep increasing it seems like FreeNAS is no longer for me. Even if I could use the latest features it seems everything is experimetal, hacky or just not possible (like GPU pass through to a VM).
Its time to look at my options and after learning that you can get ZFS on Ubuntu I am seriously considering just running that instead. I dont feel stuck to ZFS, but its been running problem free for years now. As I understand it I could just import my pool into Ubuntu too, win! I could also look into upgrading my system and running esxi with FreeNAS+Ubuntu.
Right now my server is 99% a media server and 1% a place where I dump things for safe keeping. I use Plex, Transmission, Sonarr etc and have a network share that anyone can access locally. I feel a lot of what FreeNAS offers is wasted on me.
I am curious if anyone can give me any advice here. What should I be aware of? What would I loose out on? Is ubuntu ZFS as reliable as FreeNAS?
Thanks,
Chris
For some time now my hardware hasnt been good enough to continue getting what I want out of it and FreeNAS. I cant run docker or VM's and as my requirements keep increasing it seems like FreeNAS is no longer for me. Even if I could use the latest features it seems everything is experimetal, hacky or just not possible (like GPU pass through to a VM).
Its time to look at my options and after learning that you can get ZFS on Ubuntu I am seriously considering just running that instead. I dont feel stuck to ZFS, but its been running problem free for years now. As I understand it I could just import my pool into Ubuntu too, win! I could also look into upgrading my system and running esxi with FreeNAS+Ubuntu.
Right now my server is 99% a media server and 1% a place where I dump things for safe keeping. I use Plex, Transmission, Sonarr etc and have a network share that anyone can access locally. I feel a lot of what FreeNAS offers is wasted on me.
I am curious if anyone can give me any advice here. What should I be aware of? What would I loose out on? Is ubuntu ZFS as reliable as FreeNAS?
Thanks,
Chris