Hello all,
I'm new here and from what I gather freenas "this" or "that" gets asked a lot so sorry in advance for yet another question, but this I think relates more to the OS. Also I read the rules and this "PC-BSD, FreeNAS, NAS4Free, and all other FreeBSD Derivatives" and hope I'm posting in the right place and that it's clear that this is NOT a Freenas troubleshoot but it IS in a way related to it.
I game so I'm mainly a Windows user, but I've been using (/tinkering with) Linux for a few years now. I'm comfortable around the console, the OS structure but I pretty much follow tutorials and in the end stuff works out great! I have a headless Debian server that doubles as a torrentbox (rtorrent + rutorrent) and NFS server for Kodi access around the house. It has served me well but I wanted an upgrade and I ended up deciding on a build for Freenas (left the specs bellow for context). With it I was planing on keeping the torrentbox side and the NFS, increase the storage capacity, improve the odds of keeping my data safe with a easy/quick GUI and get a homelab to try new stuff. Maybe beehyve, plex, etc.
I test-drived Freenas around 11.0 and it wasn't perfect, but what is? It makes for easy management, has plugins and blablabla. It took me a while (one year or so) to buy all the components I wanted but when I start using it "for real", Freenas switches from 11.1 to .2 and the new GUI happens. Iocage happens. And it's a shit show! I hate the new GUI, I actually prefer iocage jails but it's not implemented right and I had a lot of issues using the GUI for managing them. In the end I was using iocage from the console and it was working great but then it kinda hit's me: Why am I using console when the whole point of Freenas was to NOT use it and make management easy and faster to adopt?!
So, here I am with some questions, because all of that:
I don't really mind switching from Linux and learning it the hard way, it works for me because i don't RTFM (only when i fucked it up!). It was actually very refreshing not having a million distros to test and understand the workings of. From what I read, Gentoo and Debian are the most similar distros to freebsd so I think I'll be alright.
If you can give-me a good start, would greatly appreciate it...
Thanks in advance
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PCPartPicker part list
CPU: Intel - Xeon E3-1245 V6 3.7GHz Quad-Core Processor
Motherboard: Supermicro - X11SSL-CF Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard
Memory: Crucial - 16GB (1 x 16GB) DDR4-2400 Memory
Storage: Western Digital - Red 4TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive
Case: Fractal Design - Node 804 MicroATX Mid Tower Case
Power Supply: SeaSonic - PRIME Titanium 600W 80+ Titanium Certified Fully-Modular Fanless ATX Power Supply
Other: SanDisk 16GB Ultra Fit USB 3.1 Flash Drive - SDCZ430-016G-G46
I'm new here and from what I gather freenas "this" or "that" gets asked a lot so sorry in advance for yet another question, but this I think relates more to the OS. Also I read the rules and this "PC-BSD, FreeNAS, NAS4Free, and all other FreeBSD Derivatives" and hope I'm posting in the right place and that it's clear that this is NOT a Freenas troubleshoot but it IS in a way related to it.
I game so I'm mainly a Windows user, but I've been using (/tinkering with) Linux for a few years now. I'm comfortable around the console, the OS structure but I pretty much follow tutorials and in the end stuff works out great! I have a headless Debian server that doubles as a torrentbox (rtorrent + rutorrent) and NFS server for Kodi access around the house. It has served me well but I wanted an upgrade and I ended up deciding on a build for Freenas (left the specs bellow for context). With it I was planing on keeping the torrentbox side and the NFS, increase the storage capacity, improve the odds of keeping my data safe with a easy/quick GUI and get a homelab to try new stuff. Maybe beehyve, plex, etc.
I test-drived Freenas around 11.0 and it wasn't perfect, but what is? It makes for easy management, has plugins and blablabla. It took me a while (one year or so) to buy all the components I wanted but when I start using it "for real", Freenas switches from 11.1 to .2 and the new GUI happens. Iocage happens. And it's a shit show! I hate the new GUI, I actually prefer iocage jails but it's not implemented right and I had a lot of issues using the GUI for managing them. In the end I was using iocage from the console and it was working great but then it kinda hit's me: Why am I using console when the whole point of Freenas was to NOT use it and make management easy and faster to adopt?!
So, here I am with some questions, because all of that:
1.
This machine's priority is storage and data management; I know I can't run away from the console but can you advise me on a list of ports (I think I'm using this right) to that end? Freenas has a lot of nice features in the management end, like SMART watch, email alerts and in some way I would like to "freenas my freebsd experience" as opposed to what I ended up doing "freebsd'ing my Freenas" because i needed more that what it was giving me. A list or a link with your thoughts would help a lot;
2.
I've been lurking in the forum and it has nice tutorials on getting started and i've seen some pf, nginx stuff also, but I was looking for more updated references, is there another website with up to date tutorials on freebsd?
I've been lurking in the forum and it has nice tutorials on getting started and i've seen some pf, nginx stuff also, but I was looking for more updated references, is there another website with up to date tutorials on freebsd?
I don't really mind switching from Linux and learning it the hard way, it works for me because i don't RTFM (only when i fucked it up!). It was actually very refreshing not having a million distros to test and understand the workings of. From what I read, Gentoo and Debian are the most similar distros to freebsd so I think I'll be alright.
If you can give-me a good start, would greatly appreciate it...
Thanks in advance
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PCPartPicker part list
CPU: Intel - Xeon E3-1245 V6 3.7GHz Quad-Core Processor
Motherboard: Supermicro - X11SSL-CF Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard
Memory: Crucial - 16GB (1 x 16GB) DDR4-2400 Memory
Storage: Western Digital - Red 4TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive
Case: Fractal Design - Node 804 MicroATX Mid Tower Case
Power Supply: SeaSonic - PRIME Titanium 600W 80+ Titanium Certified Fully-Modular Fanless ATX Power Supply
Other: SanDisk 16GB Ultra Fit USB 3.1 Flash Drive - SDCZ430-016G-G46