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Gutted, I'd love a little more power :(

I should probably be clearer, it's only some WD drives typically the ones I was interested in for this server. To be honest it went over my head so I took the easy option and went for the sammys. http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1285254...

I thought I too was getting slow transfers until I realised my laptop only had 100mbit :(

Well i've shot myself in the foot. Created a raid5 array in freenas (3x2tb), copied across about 150gb of stuff, added another disk in the server today and it turns out you can't expand it. Looking at moving everything off, rebuilding with ZFS and starting again!

Gigabit or 100mbit network?

Has anyone tried to get another hard drive in the 3.5" bay underneath the 5 1.2" bay where the molex connectors are sitting? See piccy :)

Samsung Eco drives here, read nasty things about WD and raid being disabled.

Been playing with all kinds of settings on the box to see if I could bring up the samba speed, it just occurred to me my laptop doesn't have gigabit lan. doh!

Aye, but in a vmware environment. FreeNAS really is a piece of ****, boot from the CD, choose to install it onto the 160GB drive and your pretty much good to go straight out of the box. Playing around with the RAID config from within the GUI just takes some time to get your head around if...

cheers pejay. Freenas is bsd but with a flashy web front end, that runs okay.

Guys, I'm going to move the 160gb into the top bay and lay it in there so I can stick another 2tb in the caddy. Anyone done that already? Any advice? Extra molex needed or anything?

Formatted, encrypted and mounted! Just need to order another 2tb drive and add that in now woohoo!

Finally got home to find the raid 5 built, now formatting....

Well still not done currently at 74%!

Snap,'just kicked mine off shows 7% after about 40mins of plugging away (ewsi / freenas) As I goto sleep freenas is showing 44meg sec across 3'drives and temps stable at 30oc. Could do with pushing some more ram to it and tweaking some of the sus variables but should be done by morning!.

Chaps after some advice. I primarily bought the server as a redundant central storage point, I’ve got about 10-15 old hdds kicking about which range in size from 20gb to 250gb which I’d like to store somewhere and then dispose of. These are literally just sitting on top of a cabinet and haven’t...

Anyone else as lazy as me and have the remote card addon?

Incredibly quiet though, even beats the nexus psile I used to have.

1 remote card, 4GB RAM and a few 2tb hdds :)