I have tested FreeNAS for a couple of days, there is one fucking stupid thing that I just dont understand:

Why have'nt I used it before?!

Please stop this type of rants, also @linuxxx I have enough over my head and you guys keep on throwing new interesting stuff, give me a break T_T

Seriously, I enjoy your rants just overloaded now :P

Edit:

Downloading FreeNAS, lets see how that goes

@gitpush

Sorry :(

btw, you need atleast 8GB of RAM - ZFS is kinda heavy

@Linux I have 32GB was planning to throw it in a VM to try it out, do you think it is a bad idea?

@gitpush

If you want to test it out in a VM, consider adding 3 or 4 virtual drives in order to test ZFS :)

@Linux thanks, any minimum size for the drives? I'm thinking of 50GB

@gitpush

I dont know about a minimum actually, but for testing - 50GB would probably be perfect!

FreeNAS is a real pain in the ass if you want anything other than super core features. Just roll your distro of choice and config it yourself. It’s not rocket science.

@notlikethis it’s not pnp though. If that’s what you want get a QNAP or equivalent box.

@620hun

Well, I have only used it for a week and I get great performance from a shitty 2 core celeron with 8 GB RAM.

1+1+4+4 TB + 120GB SSD cache.

The reason that I dont want to do things from scratch is ZFS + lack of time. It does what I need - storage

@620hun

It is close to plug 'n' play actually. Everything that takes under 60 minutes for me is plug'n'play :P