FreeNas OS

[jhogan93]

hey guys, im thinking of building a NAS with FreeNAs. 

 

i currently using two 8tb usb external hdds, can FreeNas use external hdds? or do i need to get some beefy internal drives? peas and carrots, thanks

[SlashedM]

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FreeNAS can store files on internal hard drives as well as external USB drives after the drives are set up.

Although its not recommended to do so, and you should absolutely use internal drives because zfs struggles on external USBs(?)

[jhogan93]

oof, thanks for the heads up

 

[Prodigy_Smit]

11 minutes ago, jhogan93 said:

oof, thanks for the heads up

 

Quote People mate.

 

Also external HDD's are generally internal HDD's in an enclosure see if you can remove the HDD's.

[LIGISTX]

50 minutes ago, jhogan93 said:

hey guys, im thinking of building a NAS with FreeNAs. 

 

i currently using two 8tb usb external hdds, can FreeNas use external hdds? or do i need to get some beefy internal drives? peas and carrots, thanks

If you are looking at freenas.... you should be looking at quite a large expenditure to get it up and rolling correctly from the start. You can't expand ZFS arrays after the fact "easily". I would suggest doing a lot of research on the freenas (now TrueNAS) forums. https://www.truenas.com/community/

 

FreeNAS is INCREDIBLY powerful, but its not a simple thing to jump into. I run it, and have for years. I also have a buddy who runs a freenas box and another who runs an unraid machine. If I was to start over today, it would be hard to not go unraid for the ease of scalability, that said, I am 100% satisfied with freenas. But you shouldn't be looking at using external drives - its just not what freenas is built and intended for. This would be like attempting to kill an ant with a shotgun, you will likely miss the ant......