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title: FreeNAS 8 – cave man can do it
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date: '2011-11-11 05:48:23 +0700'
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It’s FreeNAS. It’s easy. Set it and forget it with full fledge NAS you can’t find anywhere else. Well, it might not have DRBD, but for home/personal or even small business should be able to cope with rsync easily.

At least, this version makes me happy. My SS4200 comes alive w/ port multiplier; it just lives up to its potential.

Kernel log speaks louder than anything.

    +pmp0 at siisch1 bus 0 scbus1 target 15 lun 0
    +pmp0: < Port Multiplier 0325197b 000e > ATA-0 device
    +pmp0: 300.000MB/s transfers (SATA 2.x, NONE, PIO 8192bytes)
    +pmp0: 300.000MB/s transfers (SATA 2.x, NONE, PIO 8192bytes)
    +pmp0: 15 fan-out ports
    +ada1 at siisch1 bus 0 scbus1 target 1 lun 0
    +ada1: ATA-8 SATA 2.x device
    +ada1: 300.000MB/s transfers (SATA 2.x, UDMA5, PIO 8192bytes)
    +ada1: Command Queueing enabled
    +ada1: 1907729MB (3907029168 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C)
    +ada2 at siisch1 bus 0 scbus1 target 0 lun 0
    +ada2: ATA-8 SATA 2.x device
    +ada2: 300.000MB/s transfers (SATA 2.x, UDMA6, PIO 8192bytes)
    +ada2: Command Queueing enabled
    +ada2: 1907729MB (3907029168 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C)
    +ada3 at siisch1 bus 0 scbus1 target 3 lun 0
    +ada3: ATA-8 SATA 2.x device
    +ada3: 300.000MB/s transfers (SATA 2.x, UDMA6, PIO 8192bytes)
    +ada3: Command Queueing enabled
    +ada3: 1907729MB (3907029168 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C)
    +ada4 at siisch1 bus 0 scbus1 target 2 lun 0
    +ada4: ATA-8 SATA 2.x device
    +ada4: 300.000MB/s transfers (SATA 2.x, UDMA5, PIO 8192bytes)
    +ada4: Command Queueing enabled
    +ada4: 1907729MB (3907029168 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C)

Thanks, FreeBSD guys enabling this feature. Thanks, FreeNAS folks developing nice-and-easy NAS.