January 2, 201610 yr I was all set to commit to FreeNAS and then I saw a video from Linus TechTips where they were show casing unRAID, boy am I glad I did. I have just finished playing with a test install and love the simplicity of the unRAID product, even with its robustness, as I was running an ESXI host so that I could run a a lab environment as well as the NAS. After seeing the unRAID I realized it could give me the NAS solution I was looking for and still allow for my virtual lab and the user forum is so much more friendly here compared to the FreeNAS forums. I had added a dual Intel 1GB Nic to my system which I want to use as the primary on the NAS side, but I am not sure how to specify it over the on-board broadcom nic. The onboard nic I would want to pass through to VM's. The Intel outperforms the Broadcom Secondly I intend to us a cache with two 120G ssd's, what happens if the space runs out does it start moving items over the array instead of waiting till the scheduled time? would not be an issue during normal operations but things will be exagerated durring the initial loading/moving of data to the new NAS. I reviewed the manual, but these two questions did not seem to be covered in the material. Looking forward to really stretching the legs on this product. Derek My current rig is: MOBO: ASROCK 970 Extreme R2 CPU: AMD FX-6300 MEM: 16GB DDR3 1600 4 x 1TB Seagate 7200 (Array) 2 x 240GB SSD (Cache) 1 x onboard 1GB nic(broadcom) 1 x PCIe 1GB nic (broadcom) 1 x PCIe dual 1GB nic (Intel)
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