Recent content by KMR

Yes, you can team on board nics with add on nics as long as they all support it. You need to provide a little more information before we can give you a decent response. What protocol are you going to be using? CIFS, iSCSI, NFS?

I don't think this is the case. At least none of the documentation I've read has indicated anything like this. You might be able to get away with 4GB if you don't have much storage but I haven't tried. If you value your data I wouldn't try; do it right the first time. Start reading and make up...

The G2020 supports ECC ram. I am using it in my setup with ECC ram currently and it works well. You can virtualize FreeNAS on ESXi, people have done it with success in a home setup but it comes with its own set of considerations. I would not run it as a VM and put important data on it, but it...

FreeNAS is great unless you need things like fibre links. It is stable, user friendly, and feature rich. I use it and am very happy with it. The Xeon 1230 may be a bit overkill, but if you have the cash then its a good choice. I use a G2020 with the Supermicro MBD-X9SCL-O board and 16GB of ECC...

1GB of ram is NOT sufficient for this configuration and ZFS. The FreeNAS forum is the best place to get answers on this sort of question. They have a number of helpful guides and sticky threads dedicated to answering these questions.

So, there are a lot of questions in here. The array configuration is a trade off between performance, redundancy, and capacity. You will need to determine what is most important to you. Best bet is to head over to a ZFS forum for this sort of question, but in general you will want to do this...

Happy to help.

My pfSense install started out as a virtual appliance too and it was great. However, I like to tinker with my setup which means server restarts on a frequent basis. My wife didn't like the internet (and file server!) going down every time I wanted to play with my computers. I now have separate...

From what you say.. you would have a Zpool of 6 disks in RAIDZ2 and a backup of one disk. Assuming all of your files will fit on that one disk why would you not want to use ZFS? It uses checksums to determine if files are corrupt and automatically repairs them if possible. If you use UFS you...

Regarding ZFS: what other options have you considered?

Yes, Atom will be lower power but honestly not by much. When I built my pfSense router I looked around a lot and the Sandy Bridge based builds weren't using much more power than the Atoms and they have a lot more grunt if you need it. With my setup the disk subsystem will push around 400MB/s...

I went with a G2020 over anything else because it was cheaper (at the time), based on the 22nm architecture, and supported ECC RAM. I have heard that those T processors are essentially an under clocked version of the processor and only save power under high CPU usage and that at idle they are...

The folks on the pfSense forum are great. I would suggest starting there. When I built mine it was a toss up between an atom or sandy bridge based build. It ended up that the sandy bridge only used a little more power, cost a little bit more to build, but was able to handle a lot more in the way...

I just built a FreeNAS based NAS for home use. Specs are as follows: Intel G2020 @ 2.9Ghz 16GB ECC RAM Supermicro X9SCL 6x3TB Seagate (7200RPM) - RaidZ2 Seasonic PSU APC 1500VA UPS Idles at 70W and runs off a USB stick. I highly recommend this setup although in retrospect I probably would...

Another Canadian here too. I am running pfSense based on a sandy bridge celeron with a cheapo motherboard and scavenged RAM and 2.5" HDD and a 1U rack mount case. I also have a used dual port Intel server NIC in it. Way overkill for what I need but lots of room for stuff like VPN and Snort. Uses...