XigmaNAS

I am a happy FreeNas(NAS4Free) user long time ago (still using 9.2.0.1 Shigawire). Yesterday I have downloaded new version (10.2.0.2.2433) in all variants (32/64,USB,ISO) to try all of them on my test machines. Wierd thing happened when I booted NAS4Free Live USB x86 on my machine with 3 HDD-s in STRIPE RAID, which contained Windows 7 installation - RAID is destroyed somehow!? I have to emphasize that I have only booted NAS4Free, changed to DHCP and played arround menues to see what is new - didn't touch disks at all (I know what I am doing, it is not my firs time with NAS4Free!). After I shut it down, I couldn't boot my Win7, becouse RAID field is broken (and I can't fix it). I have nVidia RAID controler on motherboard (Asus M2N68-AM PLUS) with 3x500GB HDD, and it worked perfectly just before I booted LiveUSB NAS4Free.

This is not a disaster for me, since I have been playing on test machine, so destroyed data are not important, but I didn't expect that NAS4Free would do that. While booting NAS4Free, I have seen messages that RAID started, then RAID is BROKEN (I wandered why), so probably it has been broken in this boot process. I tried the same stick with Live USB NAS4Free on other machine, which had only one HDD, also with Win7 installation, and nothing bad happened.

So, testing NAS4Free on machines with RAID disks is potentionaly danger for your data on those disks - be aware of that!