From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Dan Penoff
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Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2015 2:45 PM
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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
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
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
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
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
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