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JudeC

JudeC

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Hi All, a little tech advice help would be greatly appreciated

I am building a nas device for home to house my media (Music + Movies). it is currently stored in my main pc, but it is getting old and battling to handle the 4 sata drives

so here is the query:

as mentioned there are 4 drives going into the nas

3tb
1.5tb
500gb
80gb

the 80gb will hold the OS (freenas) and here comes my dilemma, I have nearly 3tb of data that needs to go into the nas, however I have recently been told by google that when I load Freenas it will wipe my drives clean, which means how the hell do I store 3tb of data, while I configure the nas box.

also if I upgrade my harddrives in the nas box at a later stage, does that mean wiping all the data, while it reconfigures?

any suggestions would be really welcome
 
You will unfortunately need to back it up before installing them in the NAS.

Relating upgrading the disks. If you remove the drives that are currently installed, then yes you will need to transfer all the DATA before removing them. FreeNAS is very finicky with hard drives.
 
Thanks Smornorgin,

But I don't mind telling you that was not the answer I was hoping for, cause I have no idea where to back the stuff up to, as buying a drive to back up to, would burn my ass as I would rather just put it in the nas.

what happens if you don't remove the drives that are in the system but just add extra drives?, do you see where i'm going with this, could I not set up the nas using 1 or 2 drives and then add my bigger drives with there data after?

thanks again
 
The 80 gb is a bad plan...old drives are just plain slower.

Is this stuff RAID'd or not?

EDIT: Ignore me...the appropriate question is JBOD not RAID. :o
 
JudeC said:
Hi All, a little tech advice help would be greatly appreciated

I am building a nas device for home to house my media (Music + Movies). it is currently stored in my main pc, but it is getting old and battling to handle the 4 sata drives

so here is the query:

as mentioned there are 4 drives going into the nas

3tb
1.5tb
500gb
80gb

the 80gb will hold the OS (freenas) and here comes my dilemma, I have nearly 3tb of data that needs to go into the nas, however I have recently been told by google that when I load Freenas it will wipe my drives clean, which means how the hell do I store 3tb of data, while I configure the nas box.

also if I upgrade my harddrives in the nas box at a later stage, does that mean wiping all the data, while it reconfigures?

any suggestions would be really welcome
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Best option to go for is this: http://www.vantecusa.com/en/product/view_detail/526

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Then it's setup as a External Drive on the PC and it can be networked through the house as one. They are available at most PC stores. Just place all the drives in there and set them as network drives then the only stress you will see is in the network.
 
JudeC said:
Thanks Smornorgin,

But I don't mind telling you that was not the answer I was hoping for, cause I have no idea where to back the stuff up to, as buying a drive to back up to, would burn my ass as I would rather just put it in the nas.

what happens if you don't remove the drives that are in the system but just add extra drives?, do you see where i'm going with this, could I not set up the nas using 1 or 2 drives and then add my bigger drives with there data after?

thanks again
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When you add disks later you can just setup a new share and keep your data on the old shares. Effectively you will have 2 shares then.

What I would recommend is rather installed FreeNAS on a USB Memory stick. Works great and you have space for an extra disk down the line.
 
Thanks everyone for all the advice,

To answer everyone:

Wesley - I am using about 3tb all in all at the moment

HavocXphere - wouldn't the 80gb internal sata drive, even though its old still be faster than a USB stick?

Glordit - Thanks, but I like the functionality that freenas offers

Smornogin - thanks again, will look at the usb option.


thanks again for everyones help
 
Just a 2 cents worth here, i recently got a HP Microserver for home as i had a number of HDD"s lying around all diff sizes. I went through all of the stuff i had and it was alot! Movies, music vids, series all sorts of actual crap. If you use a heavy hand and actually ask yourself if you actually need it - you might find yourself clearing up alot of space. Perhaps a clean up might help with the space issue too? I cleared up about 800Gb worth in the end.
 
Roomys_ZA said:
Just a 2 cents worth here, i recently got a HP Microserver for home as i had a number of HDD"s lying around all diff sizes. I went through all of the stuff i had and it was alot! Movies, music vids, series all sorts of actual crap. If you use a heavy hand and actually ask yourself if you actually need it - you might find yourself clearing up alot of space. Perhaps a clean up might help with the space issue too? I cleared up about 800Gb worth in the end.
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thanks, but already did that, not because I wanted too, but because my 3tb drive crashed and I had to reformat, when I ran my disc discovery I only got half my stuff back
 
JudeC said:
thanks, but already did that, not because I wanted too, but because my 3tb drive crashed and I had to reformat, when I ran my disc discovery I only got half my stuff back
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What tools did you use for the recovery bud? Hirens has some awesome stuff for that you should check it out ( if its not too late that is! )
 
Roomys_ZA said:
What tools did you use for the recovery bud? Hirens has some awesome stuff for that you should check it out ( if its not too late that is! )
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thanks, i'll give it a try, I usually use Recuva, worked brilliantly in the past, but been giving problems lately
 
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