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The "problem" with FreeNas is, that it is not possible to slowly grow your storage. You have to plan how to set up your config in advance. For example, you can't just start with a 3x4TB HDD RaidZ1 and then later just add a disk when it becomes too small. You either have to save the data, delete the pool and remake it in the new size or you buy another 3 disks and expand the existing volume to. I do not use unRaid, but i think adding single HDDs is possible.

This system does not fit your requirements (Mainboard/HDDS) but it is an example for small cases with 4x GPU. From https://www.servethehome.com/1u-of-password-cracking-fury-4x-nvidia-gtx-1080-ti-in-1u-performance/

Go into storage, select the pool that is degraded and click on "volume status" on the bottom of the screen. This will show you which HDDs are still connected and which dropped out of the pool. If you need to find out the serial numbers of the drives, click on "View Disks" on the main storage page. In a best case scenario, you put a slot info or something into the description before hand to make identifying a drive easier. Once you have pulled and replaced the defective drive (if it was defective), go to storage page again, select the pool and click on volume status again. Now click on the missing HDD info and click on replace at the bottom. You can then select the replacement drive and resilvering should begin.

I'm not sure i understand 100% from where you are connecting. I'm guessing you want to connect from the internet to your Pi and then be able to connect to the 172.x.x.x network from that pi? IF that is the case, it would make more sense to make the pfSense box the server for your VPN and connect directly to it. Like in this example:(didn't use the guide myself) https://www.sparklabs.com/support/kb/article/setting-up-an-openvpn-server-with-pfsense-and-viscosity/ Or moving the PI behind the pfSense box would make things simpler, too. OR do you want to connect from your 172.x.x.x Network to the PI to access the 192.168.x.x network? to change router settings for example?

I guess you got a router/switch combo, ie. the router has like 4 network ports in which you can plug devices to get internet? And wireless is also handled by it? If so, if you got enough of those ports, and your WiFi speed is fast enough, you do not need a new router. If you do not have enough ports to plug cables in, you could buy a 20$ 4/8-Port switch from TP-Link or something. If you think your WiFi is too slow, you could buy a separate Access point in the speed and price range you are looking for. there are several different types around. The thing you need to think about, is what kind of device you are going to use to serve your data over the network. You could buy a external USB-HDD, connect it to your raspberry and use it as fileserver. The Problem would be, that the PI only got USB2 and 100Mbit/s LAN -> slow speed. The next solution might be to connect a HDD directly to your router. Some higher-end models got a NAS funktion build in already. Best check your manual/product info if that is the case. If nothing above is the case, you have to buy/build a NAS to function as your fileserver. There are a ton of consumer NAS around to buy in different categories like how many HDD-Bays, price, Ports etc. All a question of how much money you want to spend. No idea what octopi is, but i guess its just a driver software? so only the amounts of ports matter in connecting the printer. So assuming that you got a normal WiFi-Router-Switch combo, with 4 RJ45 Ports, you would need to expand those ports somehow. my suggestion would be to buy a cheap 8 Port TP-Link (or similar) Switch, connect it to your router and connect all wired devices with the switch.

With Windows and Multichanne what you are planing is quite easy. Just buy 2 used Intel Dual port cards of ebay for like 20$ each and slap them in. After that you might need to enable multichannel in PowerShell and its done. there are quite a few guides for it online. I tried Multichannel recently with a windows client and a FreeNas server and even that was quite easy.

How is the network set up? Is the Switch also connected to router? Also check your settings of the network cards and check if they are in a "fail-over" setting. Generally, it is not a problem to run 2 network cards of the same PC. the best solution would be to connect the switch to your router and then connect both network cards to the switch. A setup like this could be useful if there is also a Fileserver with SMB3 and Multipath (that also has 2+ connections) on the switch. To make it clear which card is used for internet, you could remove the gateway address from one of the cards - so only one card finds out of the network.

I would look into a system like this: Supermicro SYS-5018D-FN8T https://www.amazon.com/Supermicro-SuperServer-5018D-FN8T-Rackmount-10GbE/dp/B01LXUATHB/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1502672642&sr=8-1&keywords=5018D-FN8T It would only need RAM and a SSD and is good to go. Price is over the 500$, but it already got 2x 10Gb SFP+ Ports, 6x 1GbE RJ45 and the seperate IPMI port. It SHOULD handle the 10Gbit traffic fine, but if you later use heavy encryption on multiple interfaces or w/e, there is a hardware solution for this. Doubt it will be necessary in the 10Gbit segment, but if you upgrade you might want to look into Intel QuickAssist cards. i read somewhere freebsd recently got driver for those.

http://www.wantec.de/en/19-zoll-technik/aufruestsaetze/aufruestsatz-fritz-box.html It's a for a DSL Fritzbox i think. But if the boxes are the same size, it should be possible to just insert the cable-wire from the side. Not even close to a good looking solution, but might be better than just having it sit on a shelf.

ok, i got curious and tried it out myself. if you can send faster already, the step left is only to add the static routes. I normally do not use FreeBSD, so if someone spot something that could be done a better way, please leave a comment. on my windows side it looked like this: And on my server side 192.168.178.89 is em0 and .93 is em1 so i enabled ssh on my freenas box and typed in the following: root@freenas:~ # route add -host 192.168.178.25 -interface em0 root@freenas:~ # route add -host 192.168.178.46 -interface em1 that got me a routing table like this: root@freenas:~ # netstat -rn Routing tables Internet: Destination Gateway Flags Netif Expire default 192.168.178.1 UGS em0 127.0.0.1 link#3 UH lo0 192.168.178.0/24 link#1 U em0 192.168.178.25 00:0c:29:48:0d:5f UHS em0 192.168.178.46 00:0c:29:48:0d:69 UHS em1 192.168.178.89 link#1 UHS lo0 192.168.178.93 link#2 UHS lo0 and with that it worked for me. I THINK that those entries will be gone after a reboot, so yeah.. need to look into that when i implement it on my main server. i guess you could make a small script that writes those lines after boot.. or i think in freeBSD you write them in /etc/rc.conf so they survive a reboot - but I'm not sure about what kind of format the file requires.

I just checked on my 11.0-U2 test VM and it has "Samba version 4.6.4-GIT-a4e6101" installed. Then googled around a bit and came across this post on reddit: So it seems that even tho the feature is still experimental, it seems to be doable. just make sure not to use it in critical environments. I will try setting up a test-system later next week and see if it works with Freenas 11.

As far as i know, there is no way to get multipath on freenas right now. But it was a few months ago when i checked and then the newest SAMBA version had it in as BETA function (that didn't really work yet). So i dunno if they accomplished anything major yet. With teaming you would be able to get 1gbps+ speeds, too. But only on the server side and with multiple user. It basically still uses only one interface when sending one stream to a destination. So if you got 2 destinations, it could send streams on both interfaces and so reach 1gpbs+. EDIT: Sorry, i just noticed, i meant MULTICHANNEL not multipath.

If you don't set up the teaming/lacp/trunking in windows and the switch, windows will use SMB multipath. something that in this use case is superior to lacp since it can be use in a 1on1 connection. This means that all interfaces work with their standard configuration (get ip addresses etc) and windows figures everything else out. Problem is, that multipath is not yet final in SAMBA -> no mulitpath on unix systems. So you are left with trunkint/lacp on freenas, which does not really help you with only one server and a client, or switching to a windows solution for your server till SAMBA gets multipath.

It can't boot from your boot-drive. Check if the cables are still attached securely to the drive. If it still does not work, i guess it pays to have a backup? Load a backup drive/usb stick and it should load - my guess is, the sudden shutdown by the power loss damaged the drive. Maybe try connecting the drive to another computer and see if there is anything you can save, if you did not back it up beforehand.

Is the port forwarding on the server set correctly?