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Figured it out. I had to first use the command line to get into the jail and create the directory. Feels like that should have been automagic, and indeed, from looking online, it looks like in some cases that is. Why, Merc? Administration is basically all with the web interface. I feel safer...

BSD is what you get when a bunch of Unix hackers sit down to try to port a Unix system to the PC. Linux is what you get when a bunch of PC hackers sit down and try to write a Unix system for the PC. http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/01

Anybody running Plex on FreeNAS? I'm struggling to use Plex to host family pictures. I'd love to create a ZFS data set for my albums but I can't seem to get through the process of linking the shared folder with the jail that Plex lives in.

Why did it always seem like their company was run by a bunch of 14 year olds?

If my house burns down and I need to restore all 2+ TB, I think the fastest way is to put the Linux offsite machine on the same network as my other PCs.

I've done test restores multiple times with CrashPlan, including from the CrashPlan cloud service and more recently, with my offsite, and as long as the media is accessible, it works. The part that creates problems is that if I try to import a ZFS volume from a Linux machine (ZFSonLinux) into a...

Merc, totally agree with RAM and ZFS, whether it's ZFSonLinux or native ZFS on FreeNAS (FreeBSD). Because the old PC was going to be offsite, I figured the limiting factor either way would be my upload speeds, and indeed, I'm hitting those at 2-3 Mbps. I did end up taking it from 2*1GB sticks to...

On the theme of storage-related posts: I got my backup system significantly improved this weekend and I'm very happy about it. I took my wife's old PC, e7200 Wolfdale, put in more RAM (up to 4 GB now) and an SSD, installed Linux Mint on it, installed ZFS for Linux to create a RAIDZ1 array from...

shouldn't I be able to use the green drives if I sort of JBOD them into a single volume (not RAIDZ)?

Really wish I could combine multiple green drives in a zpool. At least I've had no problems in my limited testing using ZFS on a single green drive in a single zpool.

Transvag? Didn't expect to run across this.

I'm loving my Corsair 650D, except I've had to replace the integrated fan controller twice, as my three fans kept blowing out the crappy little switch.

It was fiddly in OpenSuse, I think because of systemd. In Ubuntu i had to pay attention to installing as user or guest. And I see no benefit to installing the Crashplan client vs just mapping he drive - I'd happily fiddle with it if I thought there was a reason to. ZFS on Linux (Mint/Ubuntu)...

I found it easiest just to use symlinks to trick Crashplan into thinking that all my backup locations were local (on my Win7 machine), where in reality I have one going to a ZFS on Linux RaidZ1 and one going to FreeNAS (ZFS, stripped as I needed to make two 2 TB disks into a single >3TB pool)...

Why not an Ivybridge-based Celeron? Looks like the G2020 is $3 cheaper and it's TDP is 55W vs 65W for the Sandy-based G630.

Yes. I like to record many things from PBS, the news, and a few other things. Same with the wife.

...yup, looks like you can cram up to 8 hard drives in that little Lian Li. FYI, here's a nice show that includes some info on Plex: http://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/39292/media-streaming-on-linux-las-s27e07/

Also looking at Plex as a replacement for my Win7 Media Center HTPC, which is too slow (suspect it's the WD 20EARS in it), too loud, too hot, and has too many buttons for little fingers. Love the idea that I can stream shows to an iPhone, iPad, PC, or TV. But what would be the simpliest way of...

What do you mean, as a collector? I'm using Crashplan, and my backup destinations include a FreeNAS share symlink'd to trick CrashPlan into thinking its a local drive.

I recently built a machine with an ASRock Z77 Pro4, and I too liked the plethora of SATA ports and good price. I used to be a big Asus fan, but they seem a little pricey for what you get.

I replaced my Hyper212 fan with a quiet Scythe one. Maybe that defeats the purpose of a good, cheap, simple HSF.

I like my Hyper 212 Evo.

Wow. Some more testing: Linux machine, running ZFS on Linux. Installed three 3TB Seagate 7200.14 ST3000DM001. RaidZ (RaidZ1), ashift=12 using the three drives, giving me 5.31 TB of space. Copying from my Window machine's SSD goes at about 108 MB/s, CPU usage around 11% on the Linux machine. RAM...

Liam, so far it's been a learning thing, yes. But I want to move to using a ZFS system for my backups if I can make it work. So far the easiest solution I've found is to spend a few hundred bucks making a new server to run FreeNAS, but I'd prefer not. I use CrashPlan, which can't split a...

Not recommended, primarily because of the need for ZFS to be able to access the drives directly: http://forums.freenas.org/threads/please-do-not-run-freenas-in-production-as-a-virtual-machine.12484/

Anybody know a way I can get some or most of the features of FreeNAS (easy web-based administration with ZFS support) within a Linux machine? I'm trying to see if I can make my Linux box pull double duty as a workstation of sorts but also a destination for backups to be stored on ZFS Zpools.

Sandy-E? Ivy-E? Wait for Haswel-E?

For a while now I really liked TechReport.com. But same basic message as [H].

Shoot, I think I forgot to do the ashift=12 trick with the WD 20EARX I used. Oh well. Not planning on using this drive long-term in the array, was just testing out the ZFS kernel module. I know "green" drives don't do well with ZFS, but does this hold true for just single volume Zdevs (just...

Some more numbers: On my Linux machine I installed the ZFS kernel module. I took my WD Green drive and made it into a ZFS volume with both dedup and compression on. Transferring some videos to it from my Window's machine's Seagate 3TB drive ran anywhere from 30-90 MB/s, and used 10-20% of the...

Thanks, Tannin. But, um, Tim?

Any reason I can't use my old Antec TruPower Trio (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817103942) for a new system build (Intel or AMD)? Has anything changed since 2008? I know Haswell has some issues with sleep/hibernate, but I really don't care about that sort of feature.

Home from work, and it's still working great. Looks like it was probably the Homegrouup bug, er, feature, that was left enabled on the HTPC. Thanks again Chewy and Merc!

Wife got up, was able to reboot her PC, I rebooted my PC again, rebooted the router, and things seem to work. I can browse my network from my Linux machine. We'll see if it sticks. Hopefully it was just the Homegroup "feature" that was left on on the HTPC upstairs. Could it be that the HTPC's...

And now this morning I can connect to my HTPC by clicking on the bookmark I created (using the "connect to server...smb://_ip_address" method) but not when I browse to it through the network icon. I can't connect to my PC using the "connect to server...smb://_ip_address" method - I get...

HTPC upstairs was still part of the Homegroup I had running a long time ago, all other PCs had left it. Left the homegroup, rebooted the HTPC, rebooted the Linux box, same problem. Suppose I could boot the other PCs and my router as well just to be safe.

My Samba file is is /etc/samba/smb.conf. Not sure what to do with smbclient -W. I believe I turned off HomeGroup on all Windows machines but I'll have to doublecheck. It did work and then suddenly stop without any machine reboots and then decide to start working again a few hours later. Any...

No, I still have my FreeNAS computer, although I had the Linux box and FreeNAS box running off of a switch off of my main router. To try to troubleshoot things I plugged the Linux box directly to the LAN cable to the router, and shut down the FreeNAS machine. It worked flawlessly. Really want to...

Can't seem to make things work properly. Was hoping someone here might be able to point me in the right direction. Network/Windows machines: primarily Windows 7 machines. Two in particular are ones I want to connect to. Network uses a workgroup, named WORKGROUP. I turned their network settings...

Except Seagate's new4 tb drive is 5900. For mass storage and ZFS arrays, should I go with their 3rb 7200 rpm drives or is the heat/power/noise savings on the 5900 drive really worth it? how did we get 5400,7200, 10000, and 15000, anyway. And do they actually spin exactly at those speeds?

Some testing: First, 3 machines: 1) FreeNAS machine is a Core 2 duo 7200 @ 2.53 GHz (stock), 2x1 GB PC 1066 RAM. Gigabit ethernet via a netgear switch to my router. FreeNAS 8.3.1 installed to an 8 GB flash drive. I have a single disk, a Seagate 7200.10 500GB drive, that I let ZFS have...

I don't really want to use my more powerful PCs for "just" running a NAS. Any way to run FreeNAS together with (or as a service of) PC-BSD? I can only find online comments about doing this as a VM, and it seems FreeNAS does not work well as a VM.

Anyone have experience with FreeNAS with ZFS on older hardware? Love the idea of ZFS and the web based interface seems super easy, but I'm a little scarred of the RAM recommendations. 8 GB? Really? The old PC I want to reuse has a core 2 duo e7400 and 2 GB of RAM. I just want to run a single...

Anyone have a favorite cheap fanless GPU at the moment?

I've noticed that the guys at The Tech Report seem to really ding the current AMD chips for relatively high power consumption. Can somebody explain to me what the big deal is if your CPU (APU) is a 100W part versus 77W part?

Hey Gang, I'm thinking about building a Linux machine, and I'd like to be able to hook it up to two monitors. I won't do any gaming on it, and would prefer low power/heat/noise. From what I can tell, Sandy/Ivy Bridge can do multiple monitor outputs, not sure about the AMD A-series chips. Has...

My router is a DIR-655, and only has 4 (gigabit) ports. I'm contemplating a fifth computer in the house that would need a wired connection. What's the easiest way of going to >4 gigabit PCs? Getting a dedicated (non-wifi) gigabit router and putting some of the PCs on that? Connect on of my...

I'm a fan of Mint with XFCE.

My family runs a HTPC upstairs, Windows 7 pro. We use it to watch Netflix. Yesterday it said we weren't authorized and showed us the logon page. It wouldn't let us log on. Wife called Netflix, who said that they don't support WMC (Windows 7). I know people have had all sorts of issues with WMC 7...

Why not just wait until the transformer dies then pull the drive? Do they kill the drive too?