FreeNAS Hard Drive

[TheSoldier]

Setting up my NAS with FreeNAS. I need a cheap HDD just to store the OS. Has anyone used this before? Is it reliable?

$16 Wester Digital Caviar SE 80Gb Sata

 

[drescherjm]

Has anyone used this before?

Over a decade ago I had a few of these in desktop PCs.

Is it reliable?

I did not have thousands of this model so its hard to tell. I personally would not use a spinner for this especially one so old. A modern USB3 stick would be faster and more reliable.

 

[TheSoldier]

I guess I can only cut costs so far. I looked at the EVO sale but all that extra space would go to waste because you can only store the OS on the drive.

 

[iamwhoiamtoday]

I've been using a little SanDisk 8GB USB 2.0 stick that I got for $10 years and years ago as a FreeNAS boot disk.... works wonderfully. Try to save your 3.5 / 2.5 bays for something that matters

 

[trick0502]

I've been using a little SanDisk 8GB USB 2.0 stick that I got for $10 years and years ago as a FreeNAS boot disk.... works wonderfully. Try to save your 3.5 / 2.5 bays for something that matters

This.

Don't waste a sata port and a drive on that. Use a usb flash drive to install freenas to.

 

[bmh.01]

Get two identical usb drives and mirror now the boot has moved to zfs.