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vibe666 · 01-06-2012, 14:15

the same thing could just as easily happen with any other kind of storage if you don't have a UPS or keep backups, it's not something exclusive to NAS's.

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Originally Posted by Serephucus

Wow, that's a lot lower than I was expecting... Still fine for just media and stuff I suppose. I'd be interested to hear what happens if/when it gets more RAM stuck in it.

i actually just copied something from my SSD's to the NAS and it touched 90MB/s and then averaged about 85MB/s so i guess whatever the speed issue was went away on it's own.

Surfn · 07-06-2012, 13:43

heres a question id like to ask. say if i bought a proliant microserver and had hard drives in the 4 bays plus another 1 in the optical bay, can i put the drives in with data on them, is there any OS i can install on a usb stick that i can use just to stream the files without wiping the data of the disks when installing. i dont want any form of raid or backup just basically to stream the files, bluray movies, music etc. can i set freenas up in this way, i dont want the data to be erased of my drives on setup. in the future i will do some sort of raid. for now i just want to get all these drives from my main pc to like the microserver and stream from there

Serephucus · 07-06-2012, 13:58

AFAIK, FreeNAS will do that for you. It only wipes drives when you go to setup RAID arrays. If you're JBODing stuff then you should be fine to plug and play, as it were.

Surfn · 07-06-2012, 14:00

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Originally Posted by Serephucus

AFAIK, FreeNAS will do that for you. It only wipes drives when you go to setup RAID arrays. If you're JBODing stuff then you should be fine to plug and play, as it were.

cheers serephucus, do you know if they will be shown as a pool or individual drives when using jbod

Serephucus · 07-06-2012, 14:03

Haven't a clue. I've never actually used FreeNAS as it stands, so don't take my word as true either.

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07-06-2012, 13:43	#62
Surfn Registered User Join Date: Jul 2011 Posts: 234 Adverts \| Friends	heres a question id like to ask. say if i bought a proliant microserver and had hard drives in the 4 bays plus another 1 in the optical bay, can i put the drives in with data on them, is there any OS i can install on a usb stick that i can use just to stream the files without wiping the data of the disks when installing. i dont want any form of raid or backup just basically to stream the files, bluray movies, music etc. can i set freenas up in this way, i dont want the data to be erased of my drives on setup. in the future i will do some sort of raid. for now i just want to get all these drives from my main pc to like the microserver and stream from there

07-06-2012, 13:58	#63
Serephucus Registered User Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 4,676 Adverts \| Friends	AFAIK, FreeNAS will do that for you. It only wipes drives when you go to setup RAID arrays. If you're JBODing stuff then you should be fine to plug and play, as it were.

07-06-2012, 14:03	#65
Serephucus Registered User Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 4,676 Adverts \| Friends	Haven't a clue. I've never actually used FreeNAS as it stands, so don't take my word as true either.