Has anyone managed to unlock the Synology bootloader? Their hardware is great (but expensive), but the software leaves a lot to be desired.
FreeNAS: Open Source Storage Operating System
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#152A FreeNAS device has the ability to do native ZFS send/recv to rsync.net.[1] Always remember to ask about the "HN Readers Discount". [1] http://www.rsync.net/products/zfsintro.html [2] http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/12/rsync-...
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#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is there any way to use this and encrypt your data?
I don't know if it's possible with FreeNAS, but on an ordinary Debian box nothing stops you running ZFS on LUKS encrypted devices. I've been using this configuration without issues for about a year on a home file server.
That won't do anything when it comes to encrypted sends. ZFS supports disk encryption without a hitch.
I wouldn't recommend using LUKS, though - leave it to the built-in support.
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#154Time to donate to FreeBSD https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/ !
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#155ZFS runs with even better performance when you turn compression on. zfs set compression=lz4
I noticed a massive write performance hit when I enabled this. Note that it'll only compress data after you enable it, it isn't retroactive
CPU is most likely the bottle neck. So my comment should have read if you have a fast cpu you may benefit from ZFS compression.
On modern CPU LZ4 should enable about 400MB/s current PCU write compression https://github.com/Cyan4973/lz4
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#156Ooh, these FreeNAS boxes for the home are very nice: https://www.ixsystems.com/freenas-mini/ When I built my home NAS there wasn't an off the shelf FreeNAS option and it was definitely a "research all the things, build your own system" with the huge caveat of "Did you put enough RAM in that?". The 8-bay one is particularly good value, rivalling similar systems by QNAP, and I personally do have a QNAP and if I were to…
I think the generation 8 "HP Microserver" is a good system. One limitation is the 16GB max ram, but given that it's for home use with (presumably) large files and a small number of simultaneous clients, it shouldn't be a problem - even if you use 4x 8 TB disks. The key is to populate it with ECC ram which should be an absolute requirement for any ZFS system.
Just bought one of these for exactly this! Going with 4 3TB disks in raidz2 because it was the best price/TB I could find without taking some external 5TB drives out of their enclosures.
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#157I run FreeNAS on a HP Microserver, got 4 3TB HGST drives, and a stick of ECC memory to bump the box to 10GB.
Given that the OS needs to run somewhere, and one would rather use the 4 bays for drives in the zpool, I used the recommended method of running the OS from a USB drive. Sounded strange to me, but it's worked a treat. I saw that there are kits out there for replacing the empty CD slot in the Microserver with an SSD for the same purpose, but I'd rather not touch something that's working now.
I went for RAIDZ1, despite a lot of internet protestations about it, as I basically only store movies/music/Time Machine backup there anyway.
Been thinking about backup solutions for everything, but it all seems fairly expensive for what is essentially just backing up media.
To people recommending Plex for media streaming, I would actually recommend Serviio over it. It took a little extra setup in a jail, requiring some extra port downloads, but it works extremely well in it's DLNA streaming to my PS3. Where it shone brighter than Plex for me was it's support for transcoding and subtitles - it transcodes and shows all of my H264 video files with ASS subtitles with all of the style intact. It also supported PGS subtitles, but my piddling processor didn't quite match up to it.
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#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you could, that makes no sense. ZFS is superior.
Unless you want to reshape your array. Then md-raid is superior. Btrfs's raid implementation has had some pretty bad issues recently and has been declared "experimental" as a result.
This is inaccurate. Raid56 have always been labeled experimental, but recently, data corruption bugs were found which make it dangerous to use.
Other raid levels (raid0, raid1, raid10) work fine and are considered stable -- at least as stable as the filesystem itself.
Either way, if you care about the data, you must backup, no matter what fs you use.
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#160I run FreeNAS on a HP Microserver, got 4 3TB HGST drives, and a stick of ECC memory to bump the box to 10GB. Given that the OS needs to run somewhere, and one would rather use the 4 bays for drives in the zpool, I used the recommended method of running the OS from a USB drive. Sounded strange to me, but it's worked a treat. I saw that there are kits out there for replacing the empty CD slot in the Microserver with an…
Off topic and a total tangent, but... Oh well!
Plex has done transcoding, including subtitle burn in, for a LONG time. It's a modified (I think) ffmpeg they ship with the server.