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Randall8686

Randall8686

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So my Expenology has gone up the spout, I cant recover the Data and looking on the forums im not the only one to have suffered this. Thankfully i have another server that replicates it every 24 hours so nothing major lost. However i dont fancy running that system any more with some sort of hacked software.

Im looking at freenas ? has any one had and experience with this ? Seems i need to upgrade to 8gb ram but thats not an issue. I need a simple interface and mainly data backup and streaming media to all the "smart" devices around the house. I dont want anything i particularly need to maintain.

What ideas does everyone have ?
 
Cheers guys will look over these options, i dont mind paying for a good bit of software if there are better payware options. So long as they are not hundreds of pounds or a yearly thing, i have about 5tb worth of data i need to put on it currently and i use 2tb red drives (currently 5 drives) but will start building it with 3 drives.
 
swain90 said:
What are your main requirements?
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Main requirements are storage of Data, I dont need 24/7 access so happy to just have 1 drive as a redundancy as i have another NAS (genuine synology) also replicating the data an a single HDD off site that backs up critical files so i feel fairly secure in that respect. Feeding 2-3 HD streams to a couple of telly and maybe a tablet is the most work its going to see. Also a download client is handy. with maybe a bit of on the go access.

Could you elaborate on what the issue was?

Basically it decided in its wisdom to try and update its self to version 6 whilst i was away and clearly failed as expenology does not support this update yet. the unit was set not to update automatically however i think it had somthing to do with another application trying to update. I managed to downgrade back to the latest version supported by expenology but it cannot see my Volume that is on the disks and i cant find any information on getting it to see existing volumes. I have tried booting again saying restore setting and data and get nothing. If i force my way into the drive from a PC i can see the data is there but the synology software cannot see it. I simply cannot be bothered with faffing about with something that does not work 100% thank god i done have a single backup.
 
No it seems a handfull of people have had theirs update. Its the first time its ever updated on its own. So now just decided that im going to give up with the fake synology keep my genuine for a backup and run another system altogether. Still u decided on what OS or raid type atm.
 
ASE001 said:
I have a number of 2TB drives RAID'd under ZFS on NAS4FREE, then I added an SSD drive, configured it as a ZFS cache drive. The compromise of having one SSD is that any writes still pending in the SSD cache will be lost if the SSD or power fails. Perhaps there is a way to set ZFS cache to write through, so writes don’t get cached?

One drawback with using a SSD as a ZFS cache drive is that the HDDs can go to sleep, and when you request data not cached it can take a few seconds to spin the HDDs up again. I never seen it media streaming but sometimes when I’m running a virtual host's DataStores from the NAS as NFS shares it happens. I suppose you could turn power saving off on the NAS and have the HDDs up and spinning all the time?

Might sound complicated, but I learned how to do it by watching YouTube. I imagine that other NAS OS's also offer something similar. It improved performance to a point that my network is now the bottle neck!
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What raid are you running zfs1 or 2 ?

Zfs2 seems a bit overkill to me. I can relace a single down drive in a few hours
 
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