Pucho Posted November 28, 2008 Share Posted November 28, 2008 How easy is it to add another hard disk drive (HDD) to FreeNAS v0.686.4? My FreeNAS needs more HDD space. Any clues appreciated. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deleted Posted November 28, 2008 Share Posted November 28, 2008 You can add as many as you need. You can add/format the new ones in the Disk Management section. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PLuNK Posted November 29, 2008 Share Posted November 29, 2008 What's your current capacity? (I'm just curious..) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X3N Posted November 29, 2008 Share Posted November 29, 2008 its easy as pie... just install and format and then share it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Lestock Posted November 29, 2008 Share Posted November 29, 2008 I personally am a huge fan of Openfiler, it's much more powerful, and has a full on development team behind it, as opposed to freenas which is just a guy writing it in his spare time. We have 4 drives in our openfiler box spread across 2 RAID 0 arrays. 2x 1TB - R1 2x 500GB - R2 Openfiler in my experiences is a crapload more stable than freenas, and doesn't have alot of the compatibility problems that plague some freenas installs. If you've got the chance I highly suggest checking Openfiler out at http://www.openfiler.com Matt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X3N Posted November 30, 2008 Share Posted November 30, 2008 I personally am a huge fan of Openfiler, it's much more powerful, and has a full on development team behind it, as opposed to freenas which is just a guy writing it in his spare time. We have 4 drives in our openfiler box spread across 2 RAID 0 arrays. 2x 1TB - R1 2x 500GB - R2 Openfiler in my experiences is a crapload more stable than freenas, and doesn't have alot of the compatibility problems that plague some freenas installs. If you've got the chance I highly suggest checking Openfiler out at http://www.openfiler.com Matt i happen to like the simplicity of freenas and havnt experienced any problems with it for me openfileer is alittle too heavy... you might as well just install centos with webmin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted November 30, 2008 Share Posted November 30, 2008 ...RAID 0?!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PLuNK Posted November 30, 2008 Share Posted November 30, 2008 What about It Vako? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted November 30, 2008 Share Posted November 30, 2008 Unless redundancy is irrelevant then using raid0 is very brave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Lestock Posted November 30, 2008 Share Posted November 30, 2008 yea these are really just scratch drives for our media storage and storage for our episode material. I run 2 WD 10,000RPM Raptor 150's in a RAID0 on my desktop and knock on wood, haven't had any issues with it. Matt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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