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I currently have my old Windows 10 Pro Machine running as a NAS/Plex Server. I have 2x 3TB drives set up in 2 mirrored volumes (2.5TB for Plex Media, 0.5TB for Documents, Photos, etc). I've set this up in Disk Management (see below for clarity). I'm running out of space and want to add more drives to increase the overall capacity. I understand that it's possible to create pools of multiple different size drives but I'm not sure where to start. The data isn't that important and is backed up externally regularly, but I'd still like to keep some redundancy in my pool. Say I want to add another 1 or 2 drives, and allow 1 drive of the 3 or 4 to fail without losing any data - how would I go about setting this up? Also, would I need to wipe the existing data on the drives in the process? Thanks in advance for any help - this is a case of not really knowing what to Google! Happy Friday

Thanks both, two great options here. Will look into both.

Hey all, I'm using an old Windows machine as a home NAS (couple of mirrored 3TB WD Reds - thankfully not SMR ones). I have a spare 3TB drive in my main PC that I want to use for regular backups of the content on the NAS. I'm looking for software recommendations that will regularly (say, weekly) sync the contents of my NAS onto the drive on my PC? I want the content on the backup drive to be just a straight copy I can explore locally, rather than an image that I'd have to restore should my NAS blow up. Any suggestions?

Hi all, I've recently replaced the screen on an old iPhone 7. I followed the iFixit guide, which I'll link below. https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iPhone+7+LCD+and+Digitizer+Replacement/88860 After putting the phone back together (and taking apart, and reassembling several times), I can't get the home button to work consistently. The hardware seems to be fine, as it sometimes works exactly as you'd expect an iPhone 7 button to, haptic feedback, takes you to the home screen etc, but sometimes it will just stop working. The iFixit guide does include a note about not overtightening the screws, or the button won't work (see below), which I think may be the problem. I've tried making them very loose, making them tighter than I'd expect, and making them somewhere in the middle, but nothing has solved it. Anybody have any idea what I'm doing wrong? Thanks!

I fixed it! I came across this thread while reading up on @Dutch_Master's suggestion about returning default values. https://www.ixsystems.com/community/threads/iocage-set-up-itself-on-wrong-pool-how-can-i-move-it.61234/#post-435258 Effectively, all I did was run the command iocage clean -a Which cleared out all the data from my existing iocage. I'm not sure why this worked, but I'm guessing I had improperly set up the jail or something along those lines, which was somehow preventing access to plugins. Anyway, my available plugins now load (although I haven't installed anything yet). Thanks all for your help.

@Dutch_Master When running that first command I get this: Obviously this means I'm unable to copy the file to run the other commands you've suggested do you know what could be causing this?

@paddy-stone EDIT: Yes, running FreeNAS 11.2-U7 which is the latest to my knowledge.

As far as I'm aware yes - how can I know for sure I've done it right?

Thanks for your help - this is what I got; What should I do?

Hi all, Recently set up a new FreeNAS build and got everything set up. I can connect to it on the network via my desktop, however, I'm not able to load the plugins so I can install Plex etc. In the web GUI when I go to Plugins>Available, I get the following message and an endless loading screen: I'm new to servers/networking so the following is pretty much the extent of my knowledge on the topic. After some searching online it seems that it may be something to do with the DHCP or DNS. I set up a static IP yesterday which I'm guessing is related. Based on troubleshooting for similar issues, I've tried pinging google.com in the shell and that doesn't work (see below). Could anyone give me some suggestions as to why this is happening and how I can fix it? Thanks! Jake

Thanks @JustAsh, after trying this several times finally worked. I think I didn't have the right combination of user credentials/permissions/folder ownership at any one time... until I did. Thanks again for solving, really appreciate it! @Electronics Wizardy thanks, your advice was also right, I was just too much of a dumbass to use the right credentials at the right time. Cheers everyone

Thanks for the advice - just tried this, unfortunately I'm still getting the same issue.

I've gone back and double checked, it looks as though I've done this as far as I can tell. Here's the permissions I've got applied to my dataset. And here are the permissions I've been using for the SMB: Currently I've only been using the "root" account and password to sign in through Windows file explorer. Do I need to create a separate user account under users?

Hey all, looking for some help. Built a new home NAS to run FreeNAS, got it booted, loaded into the GUI through Chrome on my desktop all fine. I've set up my pool, created my dataset, and now I'm trying to map this drive so that I can access it through my Windows machine and start loading up files. When I map the drive, log in with my credentials, it shows up under "This PC" as a network location; but, I get this error when trying to access it (IP address hidden): I've tried some general troubleshooting from online threads but haven't had any luck. Would really appreciate any advice. Let me know if you need any more info. FreeNAS version: FreeNAS-11.2-U7 Windows version: Windows 10 Pro 1909

Clearing the CMOS solved the issue, thanks!