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[Vitalius]

Just looked online, I go there often for parts and they don't seem to have any NAS drives for sure, limited on the CS 2TB drives. I might be able to convince them to order more, we shall see. Another option is just getting Barracuda Drives. They upped their warranty to two years manufacture and to be honest, I'm not sure how different they are from the NAS drives. Physically they seem to be very identical comparing to the Barracuda I already have, PCB traces are even the same. Difference must be in firmware, and obviously spindle speed. Also I know lots of people preferred the Barracudas before the NAS series came out.

Also I though FreeNAS claimed ZFS to be good with commodity disks?

Ah, I figured you knew about it. Hmm, well, I don't know what to tell you. I don't bother with NAS/Enterprise level stuff as I don't see it as a necessity.

What is a commodity disk?

[kprice789]

Ah, I figured you knew about it. Hmm, well, I don't know what to tell you. I don't bother with NAS/Enterprise level stuff as I don't see it as a necessity.

What is a commodity disk?

A commodity disk is just another term for consumer/non-enterprise level HDD. I could get the 2TB Barracuda drives with a 3 Year Microcenter replacement warranty for $120 a disk, less than the NAS drives. This is starting to sound like a viable solution I think three years is enough time to validate the disks will work in this environment, if they start to fail I will start to get concerned and take into consideration upgrading drives. Sounds expensive, but might be worth the risk. Probably going to do some reading up on the Microcenter warranty for sure.    

[Vitalius]

A commodity disk is just another term for consumer/non-enterprise level HDD. I could get the 2TB Barracuda drives with a 3 Year Microcenter replacement warranty for $120 a disk, less than the NAS drives. This is starting to sound like a viable solution I think three years is enough time to validate the disks will work in this environment, if they start to fail I will start to get concerned and take into consideration upgrading drives. Sounds expensive, but might be worth the risk. Probably going to do some reading up on the Microcenter warranty for sure.    

Cool. 

Sounds like a good idea. Go for it. 

FreeNAS is good about keeping an eye on your disk's health. You can set it to run SMART checks every [insert time period here] and email you the results as well as if one of your drives is throwing warning signs.

Pretty nice honestly.

[kprice789]

Cool. 

Sounds like a good idea. Go for it. 

FreeNAS is good about keeping an eye on your disk's health. You can set it to run SMART checks every [insert time period here] and email you the results as well as if one of your drives is throwing warning signs.

Pretty nice honestly.

Yeah I'm excited to get the S.M.A.R.T reports I'm thinking weekly maybe. I'm just tired of having to mess with Newegg right now and want to get this show on the road lol! Should be getting drives this weekend at microcenter.  

[kprice789]

Heres a start to my basic configuration of my FreeNAS system. First showing how to setup the email config with a gmail account.

 

Navigate to...

 

System -> Settings -> Email 

 

From Email:  youremail@gmail.com

Outgoing Mail Server:  173.194.64.108  

Port to connect to:  465

TLS/SSL:  SSL

Use SMTP Authentication:  ✓

Username:  youremail@gmail.com

Password:  yourgmailpassword

Password Confirmation:  yourgmailpassword

 

 

Hit save then navigate over to...

 

Account -> View Users 

 

Look for Username root  then for Change Email. Add the email address that you want it to be sent to.

 

 

Thats it!

 

Notes: 

1. You shouldn't have to port forward 465 
2. Ideally instead of using the IP address in Outgoing Mail Server, you should use smtp.gmail.com however this wasn't working for me for some reason.  

 

[Vitalius]

Ideally instead of using the IP address in Outgoing Mail Server, you should use smtp.gmail.com however this wasn't working for me for some reason.

Strange. It worked fine for me.

I just set it up to send an email from my email to my email (emailing myself). lol

Username: youremail@gmail.com

This part isn't how I did it. Note it says "Username". I just put the "youremail" part and left off the "@gmail.com". The program assumes it and adds it later, so that could be why you are being forced to use the IP and not the SMTP address. It's not a big deal as long as it works, but just thought I'd let you know.

[kprice789]

This part isn't how I did it. Note it says "Username". I just put the "youremail" part and left off the "@gmail.com". The program assumes it and adds it later, so that could be why you are being forced to use the IP and not the SMTP address. It's not a big deal as long as it works, but just thought I'd let you know.

 

Tried your ideas. Still have to use the IP even after changing the username. Just using the user name and not the tag of @gmail.com worked though.