FreeNAS to Ubuntu: Initial Fileserver Setup with ZFS
Background: I have always loved FreeNAS. It was one of the first servers I ever set up, back in the day in my parent's basement. It was running on a Pentium 3, 933MHz, 256MB of RAM, and about 500GB of storage space. Eventually, it got upgraded to a real piece of server hardware, more drives, etc. When they announced the buyout by iX Systems and the upgrade to version 8 with a complete rewrite, I was skeptical. I've tried their new software, and I wasn't overly impressed. I've been having various issues on v7 as well, mostly related to ZFS and random crashes. v8 is much more enterprise oriented, and dropped the fun bits for home servers, such as torrent server and UPnP, for media streaming. I bought 4 new 2TB drives and an external enclosure, and tried to reinstall FreeNAS to start fresh. No such luck, and after a few hours of crashes on start, I gave up and decided, it's time to go with Ubuntu, like the rest of my house, with ZFS of course.
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