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Renegade:
Setup of my new NAS is in progress...

Nothing can ever be simple...

Getting one of the wire unhooked required a knife for pressure... 20 minutes or so of farting around for that...

Getting FreeNAS onto a USB... Miserable, but have it imaging to the USB now thanks to this:

http://forums.freenas.org/showthread.php?251-How-to-write-the-embedded-FreeNAS-8-image-under-Windows
http://m0n0.ch/wall/physdiskwrite.php

Had to get a partition manager to format the USB drive as an EXT2 partition, then physdiskwrite finally worked.

Updates to come. :)

4wd:
Unetbootin





Getting one of the wire unhooked required a knife for pressure... 20 minutes or so of farting around for that...-Renegade (June 15, 2012, 02:02 AM)
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That would be the mini-SAS connector I'm guessing...they sure don't want it to come out accidentally. :)

Ooppss! My bad, UNetBootin will give you a USB version of the LiveCD.  I don't know if FreeNAS 8 is much different but with FreeNAS 7 I just booted the LiveCD and you had the option to install to a HDD or a flash drive, which is what I did, (on my old machine that is).

Renegade:
Well, UNetBootin or whatever, it's no matter now as the other method worked too. The thing there was the IMG file wasn't able to be read by a few different disk image programs.

Configuration took a while, but it was reasonable and things are up and running. It was mostly because I'd never looked at it before, and just needed to figure out where things were after not reading the docs then finally going back to them. :D

I went with ZFS RAIDZ1 primarily because I don't want to spend the rest of my life surfing for porn to fill it up with GlusterFS. Well, that and I can't afford the 500 trillion drives either... I really just want the thing to work and not have to fart around with it any more than necessary. :)

But, it's looking good. It looks like it will take some time though to move data onto it. It's getting about 5.5 MB/s at the moment writing from an external drive, so it's one of those that's a tad slow. But whatever. I finally have a bit of breathing space...

4wd:
But, it's looking good. It looks like it will take some time though to move data onto it. It's getting about 5.5 MB/s at the moment writing from an external drive, so it's one of those that's a tad slow.-Renegade (June 15, 2012, 03:59 AM)
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That sounds more like the OS that's the problem, with WHS I get:

via Gb LAN: 40-100MB/s depending on what else is happening,
via USB: ~25MB/s from external HDD,
via eSATA: 50-100MB/s depending on the drive.

The Gb LAN is a massive improvement over what I was getting from a D-Link NAS with a supposed Gb LAN, (5MB/s if I was lucky).  Considering the speed I'm getting, I don't even use the USB/eSATA for transferring things to it any more.

BTW, couldn't get FlexRAID to work for some reason so I went looking for something similar:
SnapRAID - Filesystem agnostic parity based data redundancy, (Linux/Windows).
Elucidate - A GUI for SnapRAID (Windows).
Liquesce - Drive pooling for Windows.

All free.

Renegade:
@4wd - I think you're right about the OS. It seems to be Windows 7. I've gone through a few trouble-shooters, and made some changes with some minor improvements, but it's still not up to par. I even replaced the cables. Still some more tuning to do... Not making me love Win 7 there... :(

But man... I'm loving the massive storage (comparatively).

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