Re: [MBZ] OT - FreeNAS

2015-02-07 Thread Greg Fiorentino via Mercedes
From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Dan Penoff via Mercedes Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2015 2:45 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: [MBZ] OT - FreeNAS Decided to nuke my Windows 7 box and use it for a FreeNAS system. Blew it away on Thursday after making su

Re: [MBZ] OT - FreeNAS

2015-02-01 Thread Curly McLain via Mercedes
That is a pretty hefty mo-chine compared to my ol junk. I probably should wait until I get some better old junk before I try it. It does. They also suggest ECC RAM as well, as the overhead for the ZFS stuff apparently runs better with ECC. Mine isn't but I'm not that worried about performan

Re: [MBZ] OT - FreeNAS

2015-02-01 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
It does. They also suggest ECC RAM as well, as the overhead for the ZFS stuff apparently runs better with ECC. Mine isn’t but I’m not that worried about performance as long as it’s better than the lousy DLink NAS, which it is. The DLink takes nearly a day to run an initial 1.1TB backup, where

Re: [MBZ] OT - FreeNAS

2015-02-01 Thread Curly McLain via Mercedes
Decided to nuke my Windows 7 box and use it for a FreeNAS system. Blew it away on Thursday after making sure there wasn't anything of value on it (there wasn't) and installed FreeNAS. Set FreeNAS up on the SSD and configured a single volume for a Time Machine AFP volume. It was amazingly simp

Re: [MBZ] OT - FreeNAS

2015-02-01 Thread Curly McLain via Mercedes
Thanks for the report. Keep us posted. Sounds like a good alternative. Decided to nuke my Windows 7 box and use it for a FreeNAS system. Blew it away on Thursday after making sure there wasn't anything of value on it (there wasn't) and installed FreeNAS. Set FreeNAS up on the SSD and confi

[MBZ] OT - FreeNAS

2015-02-01 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
Decided to nuke my Windows 7 box and use it for a FreeNAS system. Blew it away on Thursday after making sure there wasn’t anything of value on it (there wasn’t) and installed FreeNAS. Set FreeNAS up on the SSD and configured a single volume for a Time Machine AFP volume. It was amazingly simp