Making a 4 Terabyte Server with Freenas.

Using what I've learned in my last video, I am now making a much larger FreeNAS file server.

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• FreeNAS
• file
• server
• computer
• geek
• terabyte
• network

[petegrimsby]

Hi mate ..wondering if yu could help us out if your experiance. i want to use a CPU

Intel Celeron D 3.06GHz 775 socket with 1gb of ram. will his be powerfull enugh to stream to video files to ...2 diffrent computers ?also i only want to use 1 hard drive and iv heard freenas 7 can curupt the hard drive and you lose all your data. have you ever had this problem ? i really cant lose all my 300 odd g films lol

[Thaed]

@petegrimsby Doubt it will be powerful enough. While I've had good luck with FreeNAS even the creators tell you to make backups. It's not just the software that can fail.

[myriadcorp]

I plan on doing this with an old athlon 1800+ pc. My network on that motherboard is 100. How much would that limit the speed of my NAS? Should I put a gigabit card in to increase the speed?

[Thaed]

@myriadcorp If you do, get CAT6 cable too. It will increase the speed somewhat.

[HPKWI]

hi there my name is marcus i am trying to put freenas on my old window computer i do every thin u say and it is still not working

ps i do not no what is going on when i remove the cd from the cd drive it is not booting up with freenas

now i did opition 3 from the install menu and then every thing is fine and all but when i do every thing els then reboot there is no file or anything on computer

with out the cd it is not doing any thing please help

[Thaed]

@HPKWI Marcus for this version, the cd stays in! If you want to see how to do a USB drive version, watch my 8TB video. For more tech support, go to the forums on the freeNAS site. Google freeNAS and follow the links. Good luck!

[DerekFord95]

1 Terabyte is 1000/1024 Gigabytes. In this case he's talking about hard drive capacity.

[entranceive]

the guy sounds fine I dont know what the hell you are talking about.

[citrux22]

@eighteenman18 Sounds like your the man for the job. We will all be waiting for your video response to this.

[martyvid]

@petegrimsby and @Thaed too !! ...sorry Thaed, but I actually would tend to believe it would be powerful enough to do this (assuming a 100 Mb network speed ) : we're talking reads from HD sent to network here ! ..and I have read about setups on PIII computer with several drives ! so just go ahead man and give it a try !! ...regarding the data corruption, I dont know anything, good or bad, about it.... in anyway , good luck!

regards,

Mart_Mtl

[martyvid]

@petegrimsby and @Thaed too !! ...sorry Thaed, but I actually would tend to believe it would be powerful enough to do this (assuming a 100 Mb network speed ) : we're talking reads from HD sent to network here ! ..and I have read about setups on PIII computer with several drives ! so just go ahead man and give it a try !! ...regarding the data corruption, I dont know anything, good or bad, about it.... in anyway , good luck!

regards,

Mart_Mtl

[01Minecrafter]

i had that case, its fucking terrible

[LittleJohnEnterprise]

too much talking

[eighteenman18]

A very critical step is missing. You did not cover how to set this up so that other computers have access to it. It is not as "brain dead easy" as you said. It is not simply plugging it into a wireless router and bam every PC on your router can access it.