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FreeNAS: One-stop network-attached storage (Download Squad)

Jul 17th 2006 5:29PM roulduke - in answer to your question, yes you do need to format the hard drives to use with freenas (which is done through the web UI, you should be fine running the os from the 6 gig hdd and use the other two for storage. my setup was almost the same, at first - i pulled a 6.4 gig drive from an old pc, installed the os on that and formatted the other two drives for raid. at the present time i have a compact flash ide adaptor with a 64mb card in for the os and 6 300gb hdds configured with software raid 5. this serves the purpose as a home nas server very well!