FreeNAS Store your Projects & Samples - Cheap File Server Dell 1900

Part 1 of my FreeNAS Cheap File Server build-out using ZFS. What steps you have to plan for, what kind of drives do you need and Why you need to throw away the Dell Raid card.

Can it be done, maybe or maybe not... I am sharing my experience here, in hopes, it will help others, and at the same time, I can learn more too. The video is a VLOG of my thoughts and ideas of a new FreeNAS project where I am using an old Dell PowerEdge 1900. My goal is to build a colossal File Server for all my Music Samples and Projects to live.

Yes, this will involve Music but more on an indirect level. I also touch on what ZFS file system is and how it relates to FreeNAS and Block Storage. I explain why the Perc 5i/6i Raid cards are horrible and what to use instead. I decided to go with a Linux/FreeBSD based Distro (Yes, I know FreeBSD is not Linux), due to the cool features with the ZFS file system. In theory, it will work on older hardware, and I can keep the price of the budget down real low and use older parts.

In the future, I want to learn from this build and slowly upgrade to a more advanced system, with a faster Pass-Through SATA card, bigger/better hard-drives and or SSD's, and a 10GB Network throughput backplane, with the end-goal of a seamless low-latency network based Sample Drive

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... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0QuGCRTyL4