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Any reason to upgrade from 9 1 0 1 sandstorm?

For "upgrading" from FreeNAS/NAS4Free Legacy to XigmaNAS and upgrading XigmaNAS to newer builds.
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Any reason to upgrade from 9 1 0 1 sandstorm?

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Its been over a years since I upgrade my version of nas4free. Why? Well if its not broke don't fix it.

I did try a version 9.?? which broke my extensions so I reverted back and never bothered to try another version.

What features have I missed out on?

Mine is a RAID 1 ZFS version 9.1.0.1 rev 847 Sandstorm

Extensions I run are

- minidlna
- btsync

Hardware
- intel G1610 dual core @ 2.60 Ghz
- 8 gigs ram (20 % utilized max)
- 2 WD REDS 2TB raid 1 ZFS

Use - backups, TV movie streams.

Its been rock solid, can be up 100 days no issues. Not even a scrub error. (yet)

Any compelling reason to upgrade to newer version?

Thanks
NAS1 9.1.0.1-Sandstorm(847)- Intel G1610 @2.6Ghz / MB - Gigabyte B75M-3DH Ram - 8 gigs / HD - WD RED 2TB x 2 in Raid 1 ZFS
NAS2 9.3.0.2-Nayla(1771)- Quad Xeon(R) CPU 5150@2.66GHz x 2 / MB-Dell 490 8Gb ECC HD - Toshiba 5TB x 2 in Raid 1 ZFS
NAS3 10.2.0.2-Prester(1855) - LENOVO ThinkServer TS140 i3-4130 CPU@3.40GHz, Ram - 4GbECC / HD - WD RED 2TBx2 in Raid1 ZFS
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Re: Any reason to upgrade from 9 1 0 1 sandstorm?

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not yet, maybe future versions (FREEBSD 10 based) may offer better Power Mangement. In 9.2 WOL is less reliable than in 9.1.
So stay and wait to see if a functionality improves which you need...
my NAS and its development until today: viewtopic.php?f=63&t=39&sid=039fed830cf ... 4d0abe4a04
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Re: Any reason to upgrade from 9 1 0 1 sandstorm?

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Thanks for the reply. Yea power management is not high on my list especially since my cpu is super low powered to begin with.
NAS1 9.1.0.1-Sandstorm(847)- Intel G1610 @2.6Ghz / MB - Gigabyte B75M-3DH Ram - 8 gigs / HD - WD RED 2TB x 2 in Raid 1 ZFS
NAS2 9.3.0.2-Nayla(1771)- Quad Xeon(R) CPU 5150@2.66GHz x 2 / MB-Dell 490 8Gb ECC HD - Toshiba 5TB x 2 in Raid 1 ZFS
NAS3 10.2.0.2-Prester(1855) - LENOVO ThinkServer TS140 i3-4130 CPU@3.40GHz, Ram - 4GbECC / HD - WD RED 2TBx2 in Raid1 ZFS
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