We feel that this new set-up has a couple advantages over the old way. Instead of a single install backing up to mirrored devices we have a mirrored install backing up to a single USB. I have to admit, it really did make a lot of sense to me, so we did it!Įssentially we are flipping the old setup upside down.
In the unlikely event that the boot stick died, you simply had to plug in a new one (which could be created using the instructions and image on our wiki), and copy the configuration, and you're up and going again.īut a number of customers requested that we ship our FreeNAS Storinator pods with a mirrored install of FreeNAS directly on the SSDs, and use the USB stick as the NAS configuration backup. Until today, whenever a customer received a Storinator running FreeNAS it would be configured with a bootable single USB stick that held the FreeNAS OS, and two SSDs configured as a backup of your FreeNAS configuration. It combines the advantages of the modern ZFS copy on write file system, with the simplicity of a purpose-built GUI driven NAS appliance shell. At 45 Drives, the FreeNAS network attached storage operating system is a popular choice to run our high performance massive storage pods.
