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    FreeNAS best option for me to replace RAID5?

    yes I know, but there's been stable builds with only 4gb, just performance takes a hit. ECC is the bigger issue with the RAM anyhow. Later on in the thread, you can see I've swayed away from FreeNAS and leaning towards snapRAID until I am forced to update my hardware. Just trying to read...
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    FreeNAS best option for me to replace RAID5?

    Yeah, flexRAID has gone commercial unfortunately. snapRAID seems to have much less up to date information compared to the other options out there like unRAID, FlexRAID, and FreeNAS but from what I can find, it seems like it's a pretty good system. Only negative I can see is that parity...
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    FreeNAS best option for me to replace RAID5?

    thanks for the replies, had a busy couple of days so not had the time to read them until now. Unfortunately I live in the UK, so some of those parts are either hard to find or somewhat more expensive. I wish the UK had a Newegg equivalent or they did cheap international shipping. But my main...
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    FreeNAS best option for me to replace RAID5?

    just had a thought. How does ZFS handle expansion and disks with different capacities? As in, currently I have 6x1TB HDDs. What if one died and I replaced it with a 2TB disk? Does 2TB get added to the pool?
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    FreeNAS best option for me to replace RAID5?

    I was worried that 4GB RAM might be a touch low, DDR2 RAM is so expensive, it's like the price never dropped since release. Might run FreeNAS for a while and see if I'm happy with the performance before spending cash on another 4GB (would love to have 16GB, but budget comes into it again). ZFS...
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    FreeNAS best option for me to replace RAID5?

    I agree but the price of ECC RAM is too expensive for my budget, plus I would need to buy a server motherboard. The chipset in my motherboard is an NVIDIA nForce 720D and I do not believe that supports ECC memory, Since the non-ECC ram I'm using is only a few years old and has run through...
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    FreeNAS best option for me to replace RAID5?

    Currently I'm running Windows Server 2008 R2 in RAID5. The OS is a lot more than I require for my needs and I recently learned a RAID5 setup with 6x 1TB disks will have a high chance of failure in a rebuild due to bit rot and URE. So I've spent the last few days reading and I think FreeNAS will...
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