![]() On each of the five 2 TB hard drives, I created two 900 GB “virtual hard drives” using the VBoxManage utility. More agony: I find myself willingly running an Oracle product. But I am going to download VirtualBox and run it as a virtual machine. But am I going to blow away my beloved Windows 7 box and dedicate it to NAS? Hell no. Then I discovered FreeNAS ( Some kind soul put together a FreeBSD distribution that would handle RAID 5 in software. Oh, the agony of being so close… and yet so far. The controller that shipped with the enclosure did not support RAID 5 in firmware and the embedded controller on my motherboard could not be used with a SATA port multiplier. But my joy was not complete without a measure of redundancy and recoverability. ![]() When we last left off, I found Christmas joy in a big honking bag of hard drives and an external SATA enclosure. ![]()
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