Monday, July 2, 2012

How to turn old hard drives into a secure file server

This post has been around for a while, but there is a nice writeup at techradar.com about how to make a FreeNAS server using the ZFS file system. The post has good screen shots and deals with the issue of having old hard drives with different sizes, yet wanting to use them all for as an efficient a storage pool as possible:
The important part of creating your storage pool is working out how to arrange your drives for best effect. Despite the advantages of ZFS it's not magic, it still inherits

How to turn old hard drives into a secure file server

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