Devotedfollower

Hi everyone, I'm planning on setting up a new FreeNAS server with 6x 8TB drives. The drives I am looking at are:

2x Seagate ST8000NM0055

Specs: https://www.seagate.com/files/www-content/datasheets/pdfs/exos-7-e8-data-sheet-DS1957-1-1709US-en_US.pdf

2x WD HUS728T8TALE6L4

Specs: https://documents.westerndigital.com/content/dam/doc-library/en_us/assets/public/western-digital/product/data-center-drives/ultrastar-dc-hc300-series/data-sheet-ultrastar-dc-hc320.pdf

2x Toshiba MG06ACA800E

Specs: https://toshiba.semicon-storage.com/content/dam/toshiba-ss/asia-pacific/docs/product/storage/product-manual/eHDD-MG06ACA-Product-Manual.pdf

The HBA I have ordered is: LSI SAS 9207-8i LSI00301

The re

Hi everyone, was hoping to get qubes installed this weekend, but both r3.2 and r4 rc4 hang when installing the templates. r4 hangs at step (946/1018) that states "Installing qubes-template-fedora-26.noarch". Any recommendations on what do to, to get this working would be appreciated. I have a T440s with the newest bios and have UEFI and legacy boot enabled with secure boot disabled. Let me know if more info is needed. Thanks!

A friend of mine shared the following pdf slideshow from this thread: http://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/slideshow-explaining-vdev-zpool-zil-and-l2arc-for-noobs.7775/

On slide 34, it is claimed that: "For maximum performance and reliability, you should never try to use ZFS with less than 8GB of RAM and a 64-bit system. We typically see at least 1-2 people every week that break this rule and they lose their pools suddenly. There is no recovery if you damage your pool from ignoring this warning."

I've never seen other literature about ZFS making the assertion that this causation link exists or that it's even a rule to be followed...can anyone shed more light on this? Does this only

Hi all,

I am new to ZFS and have been using it in my arch installation with a raidz setup. I'm guessing there are a lot of users of ZFS here that have more information than I do and to these users I ask:

Are there any good scripts or status notification programs that you have which will email you when a device fails on raidz? The possibly also take care of zpool scheduled scrubbings? And anything else I have missed.

Thanks & I hope this helps other novice users!