![]() HBA: LSI/Broadcom SAS9207-8i, 6Gbps SAS PCI-E 3.0 HBA - flashed to IT Firmware: 20.00.07.00Ĭonnected to: two 6Gb/s 24-port 3. 128 GB of 16GB sticks Samsung brand PC3-12800R, DDR3 Registered ECC Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2650 V2, 2.6GHz 8 Core (16 thread) System board: SuperMicro Motherboard X9SRL-F, LGA 2011/Socket R, IPMI For a home NAS, this chassis is huge, able to hold 48 data drives and two boot drives with a couple spaces internally for non-hot-swap drives. The three pools in this one system represent the three NAS systems I had before the consolidation. I have even put together some hardware just to test things out a time or two.įor a while I had three systems, all at once, at home but I am making some hardware changes right now and only one NAS is online. I made some mistakes along the way, learned some and I try to share some of those lessons learned experiences here in the forum. This is the 8th FreeNAS unit I have built for home. This one was built in 2018, but I reused the name from a previous build. Seriously, dont waste your brain power, check out SMBup. FreeNAS 9.2.x and earlier require 4GB RAM but if you start adding jails then you need more. One question we haven't asked yet are what are your system specs? You should realize that todays FreeNAS needs 8GB RAM and depending on what you plan to do with FreeNAS we may recommend 16GB or more. If all you need is basic NAS service then you can be done and leave 9.2.1.9 running, however if you desire the latest version, just do a new install of 11.1-U6 and if SMB and everything works well, you are good to go. Once you know you have good hard drives then you can create a pool and start putting data back on your NAS. ![]() Once you get your data off the hard drives then I'd run badblocks on the drives to verify they are still good, or at a minimum a SMART Long Test. But if I were you my preference would be to run FreeNAS 9.2.1.9 and just import your UFS drives, you only need a very basic setup to get access to your data. ![]() I would use FreeNAS 11.1-U4 to start with since there may be SMB issues with U6 (the reason I have not upgraded to U6 yet). It is particularly suitable for self-made NAS servers and offers the same range of functions as premium NAS server boxes such as Synology, Asustor, QNAP, WD Mycloud etc. One other work arround is if you have a single large hard drive you could create a single drive ZFS vdev and then import your UFS drives as mentioned above. XigmaNAS Live CD: Download the NAS4Free ISO image here. But FreeNAS is easy enough to follow the user manual and import your UFS drives so grab a USB Flash drive and install FreeNAS 9.2.1.9 and follow the user guide, if the drives are not corrupt then it should work fine. Click to expand.So I take it that you cannot recreate your NAS4Free boot disk and import the UFS disks ? This may be your safest bet since you are familiar with NAS4Free. ![]()
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