Posts by Imrac

Quote:Originally Posted by Bonn93 You can do that with ZFS... You can't expand a raidz vdev by adding a drive. You would need to create another raidz vdev and add it to the pool, or replace each disk one by one with a larger...

ZFS + an IBM M1015 = Win for software raid on the cheap. Supports 3TB drives and SATA III.I picked up my two M1015s off ebay for ~$75 a piece + $10 for brakets.

Check out this GUI powershell script: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee176949.aspx http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/New-User-Creation-tool-14fa73cd/view/Discussions/5 You can create a CSV template, copy over the...

Are you using the free version of VMware? If so, it has a 32gb host limit.

http://www.vr.org/ Also a great VPS, great pricing, fantastic service, great uptime, true IPv6 support. Can load virtually any distro on it. I even compiled some gentoo distro's a few times pretty quickly. Ran some python scripts to...

I would recommend not purchasing that, as its a third generation meaning it uses SCSI. But, I do recommend you keep an eye on...

I may suggest instead of hot swapping a drive, why not use a USB3.0 external? I have a nice little 2.5 inch form factor external USB3.0 drive (500gb). Works fantastic. Larger files I can do a constant 60-70mb/s tranfer rate. I would be...

One can never have too many servers But you can always just try it out and see how well it works.

Freenas doesn't have any sort of playback function, and there is not too much of a reason to go ZFS if you are not going to be (software) raiding. I would say go with a debian based distro and use greyhole (http://www.greyhole.net/) or...

I know there are some issues running FreeNAS as a VM in some cases. You can get interrupt floods, there are work arounds (like removing all unnecessary virtual devices, then going into the VM bios and disabling everything not needed. I...