Adding previously used HDD

[geaves]

Decided to changed my set up to Embedded from Full, backed up, installed on USB, imported backup fine no problem all works just like it says on the tin, but.....

I took an old laptop hdd connected it up to my Mint box and ran sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb ran for a few hours until complete. Connected the drive to n4f box then did disk>management>import disks and there it appears all the information >>>>filesystem Unknown or unformatted, bonus but then it all goes down the toilet....disks|management|hdd format>>>select but the drive is not there, it does however list 2 drives one of which belongs to a zfs pool, and the other is the usb drive I have just used.

N4F used is latest 10.2.0.2.2332, I'm obviously missing something or have not prepared the latest hdd correctly and any pointers would be appreciated.

[b0ssman]

you have to sync your zfs pool as well

[geaves]

Thank you, that solved it.

[wbravin]

Hello all,

I am in a pickle. My Buffalo Linkstation died and I cannot use the drives straight away on an other NAS box. Therefore I decided to build a modular NAS Box in order to able to substitute, repair or upgrade any components. So after much reading I decided to use N4F as my solution. The NAS will be used for my media and for my private files.

I currently Have 3 windo7 pro laptops 1 Ubuntu laptop 1 HTPC on win 10 and an old desktop on win 7 home

I plan to use the old desktop as my NAS server. It is currently built based upon a Thermaltake Armor Jr. case with a m3n78 pro mb 4gb of ram and an amd 2+ cpu. (I anticipate that my xmass present to myself will be an upgrade to the board to a supermicro x10 with 16gb ecc ram and a I5

To this machine I will ne adding a 4 bay icy dock with 4 X 1 1tb HD configured as a zfs pool called media accessible to all (these will be upgrated to 4 X 2Tb RED by Dec 2016

1 X 2TB wd red (upgraded to 6 tb) which I would configure as strip CiFS drive called backup. I would copy to this drive all my data weekly
1 500 mgb drive configured as a ZFS stripe called private to host my document.

The reason I would like to have the data copied to 2 tb drive in cif is because should my nas fail or my NAS connection to the network fails I would like to take the drive out of the hot swap bay of the NAS box I install it on the HTPC and continue to have my music playing whilst I fix the issue plaguing my NAS.

Is what I am thinking logical? I will initiate my build next week

Thank you in advance for any assistance

[b0ssman]

please dont hijack other threads. open your own threads.

and no you can not use the drive from nas4free in a htpc unless its running freebsd.

[wbravin]

Thank you Bossman