Other / April 17, 2020

Can you mix drive sizes in FreeNAS?

Mixing disks of different sizes in a VDEV is not allowed.

Can NAS drives be different sizes?

NAS hard drives come in 1 terabyte (TB), 2TB, 3TB, 4TB, 6TB, 8TB, 10TB and so on — a single TB being 1,000GB. If you’re using the NAS for home storage, you can usually get away with one to two terabytes of space.

Does FreeNAS need identical drives?

Yes that is correct. Many people mix drives from different manufacturers on their FreeNas systems, I personally like to keep my drives the same speed (5400rpm, 7200rpm etc.) at least but it’s not really necessary.

How many drives can FreeNAS support?

There’s no practical limit to the number of hard drives that FreeNAS supports.

Can you use different size drives in ZFS?

Yes this is possible. The only requirement is that the mirrored pairs within the pool are the same size. ZFS does prefer to use the raw drive so ideally this means drives of the same size. But if you have a 750GB and a 500GB you can slice the 750GB to create a 500GB slice and use that slice in the pool.

Can you use different size hard drives in a NAS Synology?

Synology does allow you to mix different make and size drives. But I would still recommend mixing only similar kind of drives. Either all of them are NAS drives like WD Red or desktop or pro drives. So simply get WD red drives and enjoy the Synology great performance.

Is 4tb enough for NAS?

If you are using NAS for business or something that requires a lot of media storage, you would most likely need about 4 TB or more.

What is ZFS in FreeNAS?

FreeNAS users often tell us about their love of TrueNAS, here’s an overview of why ZFS makes them both awesome. ZFS is an enterprise-ready open source file system, RAID controller, and volume manager with unprecedented flexibility and an uncompromising commitment to data integrity.

Will FreeNAS run on 6GB RAM?

As to the question you asked, FreeNAS will run fine on 6GB of RAM in my opinion however 8GB is the default safe lower limit to avoid RAM shortages when people start loading Plugins and extra jails.

What Hardware do I need to run FreeNAS?

The list of hardware FreeNAS : 12 HDDs, 4~ SSDs, LSI 9207-8i, x540 t2 Windows : 1 HDD, 1 SSD, a GPU, (Maybe an nvme carrier card) The most obvious solution is virtualization. But I can’t virtualize windows on proxmox or xen because of anticheat banning VMs.

Does FreeNAS® support Geli full disk encryption?

Beginning with 8.3.1, FreeNAS® supports GELI full disk encryption when creating ZFS volumes. It is important to understand the following when considering whether or not encryption is right for your FreeNAS® system: This is not the encryption method used by Oracle’s version of ZFS as that version is not open source and is the property of Oracle.

What is the “volumes” section of the FreeNAS® graphical interface?

The “Volumes” section of the FreeNAS® graphical interface can be used to format ZFS pools, import a disk in order to copy its data into an existing pool, or import an existing ZFS pool. It can also be used to create ZFS datasets and zvols and to manage their permissions.

Is there a way to virtualize FreeNAS?

Virtualizing freenas is iffy because most type 2 hypervisors can’t passthrough pcie devices (vmware workstation, oracle virtualbox etc). The only hypervisor I found that says it can do it is hyperv, which I’ll use if I can’t find an alternative. Interestingly enough, there actually is a hardware solution from supermicro.