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I had to check back through my company accounts to try and work out exactly when I bought my Hewlett Packard N54L Microserver<\/a>. Turns out it was September 2014, so it\u2019s just over 5 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

It was bought to replace an N40L which was the first machine I\u2019d run FreeNAS on a few years earlier. The N40L became a backup and I sold the Netgear ReadyNAS NV+ which had been performing backup duties before that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The N54L didn\u2019t last long as my primary machine. As my FreeNAS knowledge grew I wanted to do more and more with the machine, and even with 16GB of RAM, the AMD Turion processor really wasn\u2019t up to much more than serving files.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In May 2015 I built FreeNAS1, my Supermicro Xeon system which had been my main system until just a few weeks ago when FreeNAS0 was built, which is basically a more up to date version, with 64GB of RAM and 64TB of raw storage, which I\u2019m hoping will keep me going for another 3-4 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FreeNAS1 has fallen into backup duties meaning FreeNAS2, my trusty 5-year-old HP Microserver is no longer required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The easiest way to clean down a FreeNAS system is a clean install and then create a new pool, which is exactly what I\u2019ve done. It was pretty up to date anyway (U6), but I\u2019ve re-installed to 11.2-U7 and created a RAIDZ1 pool with the 5x4TB disks, leaving about 14TB of useable space and single disk redundancy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My recommendation for anyone buying it would be to configure in RAIDZ2 with only around 10TB of useable storage, but with 2 parity disks. I might push Z1 with new drives and a good backup strategy, but given the 5 drives in the machine have around 25 years combined service, I’d feel much safer replacing them with a 2 drive failure buffer!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From reports online it should be possible to use up to 8TB drives with the N54L so in theory a useable RAIDZ2 pool of around 23TB. I certainly wouldn\u2019t risk Z1 with 8TB drives!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It should make someone a great value NAS with the capability to explore FreeNAS and understand some of its possibilities. It will run Plex or emby in a jail, although will struggle to transcode anything, so the media will need to be stored in a format to direct play to the client device.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But with a small footprint and low energy consumption it will make someone a great little NAS with around 10TB of storage out of the box, but with the potential to double that as drives start to fail and need replacing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ll add a link here when I eventually get around to selling it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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