FreeNAS Rulez: Update
I have received my cheap PCI Raid card (eBay is a cheap geek’s friend) and bought two 300GB diks and configured them for RAID 1 (Mirror) on my FreeNAS machine. Good thing the RAID card worked even though it’s documented as compatible only with PCI 2.2; my motherboard is only PCI 2.1 compatible. Setting up on the card’s BIOS was painless and my FreeNAS machine was working within a few minutes.
FreeNAS (or FreeBSD) had an obscure name (/ar0) for the RAID-ed disk and it also listed the individual 300GB disks individually, which was pretty weird. It also doesn’t report the RAID disk size (instead displays the size as “disk1″). It threw me off at first because I even thought it was my FreeNAS partition, but when I formatted the /ar0 it reported the correct size of the RAID disk. After a quick google I’ve read on somebody’s blog that he had somewhat the same experience (he didn’t mention the size not being reported correctly). I did notice, however, that the Disk Space Usage on the FreeNAS admin page seem to report the correct percentage used, which is good enough for me.
As of this writing, I am backing up all my digital images using SyncBack. RSync seems to be a better option for backing up in theory…except that the RSync clients for Windows aren’t as elegant (not even close) nor as intuitive as SyncBack.
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