Just bought two of these microservers. I have one big server right now but I thought I would sell it off and use the money to buy these. I like the idea of not having to mess with a raid card which would have cost almost £200 anyway. And also the possible motherboard replacement I would have had to acquire. I plan to have both of these running Freenas 7.2 as I have now with 5 x 2tb hard drives in a raidz1, zfs storage array in raid 5. This means that if one hard drive fails in either, I wont lose my data. I should have about 15tb of usable space for my bluray rips.
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You should do. In freenas 7.2 the raid setup will show as degraded instead of online in the status section on the first screen. You can then go to the status section for the disk drives and see which one is down. This happened to me and I was able to get the hard drive replaced.
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Why would you normally look at the drive status via the web interface?
Hopefully freenas is capable of sending alert messages (it' been a while since I've played with it). Personally I still miss audible alarms on RAID adapters.
Im not sure if this is possible, i have 3 disks in toal in my hp server, the stock 250gb and 2 xf4 2tb.
i want the 2x f4's in raid 1 and the stock 250gb for os and apps. iv tried setting this up and i get as far as configuring the raid 1 for the sammies but the single 250gb seems like it’s not getting detected as primary boot device.
Is this possible?
i want the 2x f4's in raid 1 and the stock 250gb for os and apps. iv tried setting this up and i get as far as configuring the raid 1 for the sammies but the single 250gb seems like it’s not getting detected as primary boot device.
Is this possible?
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Not With ZFS/RaidZ.
You could pull a disk hot and it'll just continue as if nothing had happened. I believe this is an issue/limitation with ZFS on FreeBSD at the moment.
Ah ok thats good to know. Is there a more safe alternative to freenas in that case? All I need is my harddrives as one and some decent software that will tell me if one has failed and so on? Is windows home server a good alternative? I dont mind paying. Also I would need something simple to set up as I am not too familiar with server hardware and software.
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it will most likely be in new year , jan or feb.
depends how successful the offer was and if they can afford to continue to keep doing it.
This looks quite tempting as a file server. However for a similar price I've found the Netgear ReadyNAS DUO 1tb with one 1tb drive already installed and a slot for a spare drive. With the price of hdd's soaring this might be a better opinion.
What are peoples opinions of the N36L compared to the ReadyNAS DUO which will actually work out cheaper?
What are peoples opinions of the N36L compared to the ReadyNAS DUO which will actually work out cheaper?
The ReadyNas is perfectly capable as a file server if that and dlna spec media server is the only functionality you want. However I think WHS 2011 is frankly the best piece of software I have ever bought for £40! Automated Home PC backups, media serving, file serving, remote file and media access, server upon which you can install other stuff etc. Massively versatile compared to the ReadyNas, but the ReadyNas is a great little unit.
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thinking of purchasing one , only really wanted a NAS drive ,I presume freeNAS will make it work as a NAS drive,?
if so what are the startup times like? And do you have to shut it down like a pc? Or just switch off ?
if so what are the startup times like? And do you have to shut it down like a pc? Or just switch off ?
I run FreeNAS 8 on both of mine (though would recommend FreeNAS 7.2) leave them running 24/7 and they are perfect. Startup time is slow at about 1.5mins but my uptimes are 30days and 110days, so I'm not too sure, as for shutting them down, I just press the power button on the front and FreeNAS does a nice clean shut-down which takes about 20seconds.
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Only reason I strayed from FreeNAS is the additional complexity in adding features, like WHS provides. Obviously price/performance and scalability problems are whole other entities in their own.
I may be missing something obvious here, but how on earth do i install an OS with a memory stick?
I've the windows 7 iso extracted onto a usb stick and it is not working? This has worked with other systems (not sure about HP) before, so how do i do it?
Using a optical drive is out of the question.
Thanks for any answers.
I've the windows 7 iso extracted onto a usb stick and it is not working? This has worked with other systems (not sure about HP) before, so how do i do it?
Using a optical drive is out of the question.
Thanks for any answers.