My Freenas Server

This is my Freenas server.

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Science & Technology

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• freenas
• server

[mrtigerdyret]

Your right that would be the best way of doing it however every sata and ide port is used by hard drives so the usb stick is the best option at this point.

[neworleansrocks]

now that you have upgraded to freeNAS 8, how much RAM does the system have?

Have you ever played with openfiler?

[mrtigerdyret]

@neworleansrocks I still only have 2 GB ram in it even thou 4 GB or more is recommended, but I works very, very well. My speed is with Freenas 8.0 about 60 MB/s up/down. Whereas in Freenas 7 in only got about 40 MB/s up/down. I have played Openfiler and it is a very cool product however Freenas/Freebsd has ZFS and that is the main reason I use Freenas over Openfiler.

[mrtigerdyret]

I have changed the server a bit. The motherboard is now Intel D945GCLF2 with an embedded Atom 330 processor and the server is now running Freenas 8.0. The 6 1tb drive is setup as a raidz (raid5) and I am getting a transfer speed of about 50 MB/s down and 40 MB/s up to my Thinkpad t61 with a sata 150 7200 rpm hard drive.

[mrtigerdyret]

It may be, however the pci raid card is a very very cheep one and I doubt it is capable of taking advantage of the bandwidth the pci has with is (theoretically) 1067 Mbit/s or 133.33 MB/s with is roughly the same as the gigabit lan. I believe the bottleneck is the hard drive in the laptop I was using to do the test.

[mrtigerdyret]

It’s about 40 MB/s download and 30 MB/s upload. It's the 4 port sata 150 pci raid controller card that is the bottleneck. I am planning to upgrade the raid card at some point; however the server was build on a tight budget, when I build is 1.5 years ago.

[liamgreen94]

Yeah i'm going to try and install it on a USB stick. But dam it's doing my head in lol. I've currently got it installed on a machine and i'm using a Portable HDD as storage. I've done this it's just a test machine so i can get used to FreeNAS. I'm going to try and install FreeNAS on a USB stick so i can have all the ports inside for HDD's etc. Also the new computer i'm going to install it on is a a lot quieter.

[cataha]

with your setup it needs at least 4-5GB memory! and to run it normal with out many panic error it needs about 6-8gb memory

[novachevyguy]

is that the voice of patrick stewart

[OakBluff55]

very nice cableing - very clean

[ricochen27]

I think 38462643 is right. I replaced my onboard nic with a Intel Desktop Gigabit NIC and the down/up speeds shot up from 30-40MB to 70-80MB.

[WaWoWieWa]

nice case, but what a dissapointment to see a kingston stick in the back.. do that internal dude..buy a CF adapter (about 10$) and a 1 or 2 gig CF card (10$) and build the FreeNAS inside the case... much better and more stable then USB

google IDE_nach_Compact-Flash_Adapter­.jpg