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I setup an old Athlon XP2500+ (underclocked) with 768mb ram system running freenas off a 2TB RAID 1 mirror.
The last couple of days it has become real flaky and it made me realise if it does go completely belly up I do not have enough Linux knowledge to recover my data and it is all stored on there, with important docs like accounts synced to my main rig on a daily basis, but things like music and films which take up such a tremendous amount of space I do not have backed up other than the RAID1 mirror.
So I had a quick look at WHS 2011 and discover my current system probably wouldn't run it. (don't think athlon XPs even support 64 bit do they ?)
Freenas is faily handy as it has a built in bit torrent client (transmission) and other bits and bobs that I don't currently use. I like the fact that it has a web interface (not the nicest looking but it's there) and I don't have to remote login to change settings etc.
So I was wondering what your thoughts were ?
I did think windows 2003 server edition that I have lying around spare might do the trick although not sure on system requirements for that one and space needed either. Then there is the issue of how I login and change settings etc.
To be fair to Freenas it has been faultless up to now, but the other night it just stopped responding to any remote commands and I run it completely headless so I had to hard reset it as it wouldn't shut down on it's own and carry it upstairs to see what was happening, sometimes it seems to fire up and shut down ok and other it doesnt.
The RAID mirror has been destroyed and after about an hour of "rebuilding it hadn't progressed past 0%) and now it seems to have given up completely not even displaying the disks correctly.
Sorry for the rambling thoughts but I want to get someone elses opinion on this matter.
thanks
James
The last couple of days it has become real flaky and it made me realise if it does go completely belly up I do not have enough Linux knowledge to recover my data and it is all stored on there, with important docs like accounts synced to my main rig on a daily basis, but things like music and films which take up such a tremendous amount of space I do not have backed up other than the RAID1 mirror.
So I had a quick look at WHS 2011 and discover my current system probably wouldn't run it. (don't think athlon XPs even support 64 bit do they ?)
Freenas is faily handy as it has a built in bit torrent client (transmission) and other bits and bobs that I don't currently use. I like the fact that it has a web interface (not the nicest looking but it's there) and I don't have to remote login to change settings etc.
So I was wondering what your thoughts were ?
I did think windows 2003 server edition that I have lying around spare might do the trick although not sure on system requirements for that one and space needed either. Then there is the issue of how I login and change settings etc.
To be fair to Freenas it has been faultless up to now, but the other night it just stopped responding to any remote commands and I run it completely headless so I had to hard reset it as it wouldn't shut down on it's own and carry it upstairs to see what was happening, sometimes it seems to fire up and shut down ok and other it doesnt.
The RAID mirror has been destroyed and after about an hour of "rebuilding it hadn't progressed past 0%) and now it seems to have given up completely not even displaying the disks correctly.
Sorry for the rambling thoughts but I want to get someone elses opinion on this matter.
thanks
James
