Background It has been 1.5 years since i ditched my Drobo. It broke during the beginning of the pandemic. A year and more has passed. Freenas Its rock stable. At one point, I had 100+ days of zero reboot. I just feel at times, it’s under-utilised. Don’t get me wrong, it is great for being… Continue reading A year with FreeNAS and Unraid
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A NAS is not a backup
Great news, you’ve got your shiny new NAS up and running. You must start thinking of a backup plan. A few months ago, we finally migrated to FreeNAS and built a Unraid as well. FreeNAS is the primary storage. It syncs to unraid twice a day. It also syncs to a standalone 8Tb harddisk that… Continue reading A NAS is not a backup
I’ve ditched Drobo
I got the Drobo Gen 3 on 28 Feb 2015. It gave me a good 5 years of ease. It met the requirement of install and forget, allow me to add harddisk as I go while providing redundancies and allow me to swop out the already installed harddisk when I want to upgrade. As of… Continue reading I’ve ditched Drobo