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Right now i'm using 4 6tb WD drives for my back up. I'm just using my 3.5hdd dock and transfer files to them then duplicate the data. This is becoming a real issue with how much time it takes to manage. Thinking of setting up a home NAS with Free NAS. Now I get Raid levels but people seem to say ZFS but I don't understand how data is stored. I'm willing to give up half my capacity for redundancy. Can someone explain to this to me? The wiki for ZFS is not really explaining it to me in a way I can understand.
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Go for raidz1 which is the equivalent of raid5, but better because no bit rot. Don't use freeNAS since it's pleb tier. Use Debian.
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>>60965181
I went from freenas to OMV with XFS. Save your money buying 1GB ECC RAM per TB for using ZFS
also I hav wired permission errors with using FreeNAS (across linux and Windows)
No problems so far with OMV
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>>60967052
Already have an old b85 based tower with N i3 I'm going to use
>>60966913
Is it easy to use? I'm a pleb with this kind of thing and I'm not sure what advanced features I'd pick up using a more advanced os
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>>60967156
does it have ECC RAM? if not you can forget FreeNAS
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>>60967178
It does not
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>>60967197
then forget about FreeNAS
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>>60967238
Then what should I use
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>>60967301
OMV = Openmediavault
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>>60967197
FreeNAS and ZFS work fine without ECC, don't listen to this meme.
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>>60968401
I've done some research on it and while ECC would be best regular ram is okay
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>>60966913
Has zfs on linux actually improved recently? Last I heard there were a number of reasons zfs on linux was discouraged.
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>>60970563
Werks for me. I don't use meme RAM and only have 8GB for my 4x3TB system. You don't need much RAM for ZFS unless you want deduplication, which is nice, but not strictly necessary.
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