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the enter max liquid tech tr4 - all-in-one liquid CPU cooler has a massive contact plate made just for thread Ripper and is rated for 500 watts of heat dissipation high pressure pwm fans mount two rubber channels on the radiator to absorb vibration and the sexy logo and edge lighting on the block is addressable for syncing with your motherboard it comes with an RGB control box - so click the spots or link in the description for more hey guys how's it going - welcome back to Pauls hardware today's video is about setting up FreeNAS in a Riptide Riptide is my a massive $10,000 plus build with a 16 core thread Ripper based system in the top with 210 ATT eyes and in the bottom there's a little free Ness system and as I have gone through this build process many many people have asked me for a tutorial or a walkthrough and I want to be clear right from the get-go here this is not necessarily going to be a tutorial it's gonna be a walkthrough of my setup procedure I've only really installed FreeNAS a couple times so I'm not necessarily an expert I will point you guys towards the resources I am using to set it up myself and I will screen cap this process though so you guys can get a better idea of what's going on as I go through the installation but hardware is documented in my earlier Riptide video so check that out if you want to see what's exactly installed I have been intending to upgrade the memory that's installed there to ECC memory though so I have 16 gigs of ECC memory here from crucial it's not necessary to have ECC memory for FreeNAS but it's recommended if you're very concerned about data integrity and it's recommended to have about 1 gig of memory per one terabyte of storage so 32 terabytes of storage via the four hard drives that are in there and then 32 gigabytes of memory via the 216 gig sticks here however although ECC memory is compatible with risin and risin two processors on this platform if the motherboard manufacturer enables it in the BIOS for whatever motherboard you're using ECC memory does not currently work for any of the AMD APU which is what I specifically chose so that I would have enough expandability of either expansion slot that I didn't need a graphics card long story short I can't use this memory with this configuration at least not yet we're hoping that when we rise in Pro ap use launch which is supposed to happen in the next couple months I think we might see ECC support for these ap use but for the time being I'm gonna have to put those aside and switch to a non-ecc memory kit so of Corsair Dominator platinum kit right here 32 gigs I know this is risin compatible to ddr4 3000 speed which is perfectly fast someone install this so we can move on with our installation of freedom the first things first upon booting up I want to double check the bios and make sure that we got all our hardware recognized I did test this stuff beforehand but it's now installed so I did go for the memory and I plugged in the do CP standard profile to give us ddr4 3000 and then I went over to advanced and looked at our SATA configuration to double-check and make sure all four of the WD eight terabyte drives are being recognized there then I forgot were to boots and check out our hard drive priorities we can see we've got the force MP 500 we've got our Intel opt-in drive and we've got our 4wd drive so all of our tribes that are connected are recognized so now that I'm reasonably confident that the hardware is functioning properly and everything's plugged in and recognized let's switch over to actually getting FreeNAS installed so I'm gonna need to create a USB FreeNAS installer if you guys have gone through Windows 10 installation it's the same general idea so the first step is gonna be to go and download Rufus which is a piece of software that can create bootable USB drives and we're gonna use Rufus and the FreeNAS ISO to create a FreeNAS installation USB on this little Corsair a cake flash drive that I have I might as well go ahead and plug this in make sure there's nothing important on it because it's gonna be completely wiped I'll put links to these download pages in the description but Rufus 3.1 is the version that we downloaded now and then over on the freenas site they have storage only configuration and storage plugins and virtual virtualization I want to mess around with some plugins including Plex for examples so I did download that version 11 point 2 beta 2 Rufus doesn't need to install you can just run the exe that was downloaded it is automatically selected the only USB drive that I've installed and it wants us to select the ISO so let's go back over to downloads and choose the FreeNAS 11.2 beta that we just downloaded and then we'll go ahead and click start it's gonna give us a warning that all the data is gonna be deleted and then we'll give it a minute while it writes that data to the USB and then we can use the USB to install FreeNAS so pop that USB into the USB port on the back of the FreeNAS motherboard and turn the system back on I would usually hit delete to go back into the UEFI BIOS and change the boot order to boot off of that USB Drive but fortunately since there's no other bootable devices on this system it automatically went and did default into the installation mode and now throttling interrupts so our installation has gone through successfully although what I'm screen capping for you guys is just a mess because of this interrupt storm detected thing that we're getting it's probably something to do with some of the USB ports on this motherboard that I might be able to disable in the BIOS I'm looking up some information I'm hopefully trying to fix that but the underlying installation does appear to have gone through successfully so that was some interesting initial troubleshooting the interrupt storm detected on irq two six five issue has been solved now though I initially tried to solve it by going in and disabling USB devices and a couple other things in the UEFI because it seemed to be a device on the motherboard that was throwing a repeating error that the operating system was picking up and just displaying on screen over and over again which made it particularly difficult to navigate the command-line interface that FreeNAS often uses ultimately though I had to double-check what version of the BIOS we were using on this motherboard and we actually had a pretty old version I think it was version 0 400 something and recently there's an update about two weeks ago to a 901 so we downloaded that put it on a USB updated the BIOS and now we have a nice clear look at everything because we're no longer getting that error thrown constantly so that's good actually next step is Internet I have no internet here so let me get back so ultimately I decided to go back and do a fresh clean reinstallation of FreeNAS just so I can show you guys what it looks like without all those error messages popping up all over the place so I went back into the UEFI and ASUS motherboards have a boot override option you can do so I just choose UEFI boot off of my USB Drive with the FreeNAS installer on it after that loaded up I chose option 1 to boot off Sabrina's installer then option 1 again to do an installation or an upgrade and then I went and chose from the list of drives that are connected my Intel obtained 32 gigabyte SSD to install 2 it shows the fresh install option and then to do a full format on the boot device and then I confirms that all the data on this device will be deleted all the data and all these drives is going to end up being deleted today but after that it'll prompt you to create a root password which you definitely should do keep a password on this and then I chose the UEFI boot mode rather than the legacy BIOS after that short wait for the installation to proceed you'll see on-screen console text pop up and scroll by and then after a bit you'll be prompted to reboot and it will tell you to remove the installation media cuz you don't want it to reboot and then boot up of your Installer again you want it to boot off of the disk you just installed - this time after the reboot there'll be a lot more on-screen console text going by as files are copied hardware is being detected and you will get a message to say this will take a long time so I was prepared for a long way but it actually only took a couple minutes but after installation is complete you'll be presented with a simple command-line interface there's 11 options available there which you should maybe take a look at there's useful stuff available like shutting the system down resetting the boot password for example but you'll also see a web user interface with an IP address listed so you want to copy down that IP address and then move over to a different computer that's also connected to the same network because now we can pretty much go headless with our freeness and not even have a monitor connected to it and we can control it and set it up via a different computer over the network via the web interface so all you want to do is go to a browser and type in that IP address 192.168.1.1 - actually setting up the NASS itself and configuring the drive so in order to set up my 4 8 terabyte hard drives into a massive 32 terabyte data repository I need to start by creating a pool for this just navigate over to storage and then fools and then click Add or create here you can choose the drives from the available disks section and add hard drives to the pool by either clicking the right arrow on them to add them to the data v-dubs list or you can just click the suggest layout button and that will sort of take a look at the drives that you have and give a recommendation for what it recommends based on the hardware that's available it shows all four of my 8 terabyte hard drives and recommended raid Z 2 which I went with because that's what I probably would have chosen to use anyway FreeNAS calls this layout and you can kind of equate it to a raid setup if you've ever set up a raid array before in fact they pretty much have the same names to mirror requires at least two disks and puts the same data on both disks one can fail without losing data rate z one requires at least three disks and one disk can still fail you get a little bit more storage capacity that way and raid Z 2 requires at least 4 disks but two of them can fail so you lose some storage capacity but you gain redundancy and since data integrity and long-term storage is a goal here raid Z - it is if you guys watched any of the build videos on the FreeNAS system you know that I have two SSDs in there the up tain drive is what the FreeNAS operating system is installed on right now but I have a second SSD in there 120 gig Corsair MP 500 that I wanted to use as a cache there's actually two different types of cache with free nests there is Zil and there is l2 art there's a lot of depth of both of these I'm going to give a very simple explanation as to why I'm choosing what I'm choosing but Zil is ZFS intent log and it can help with write speeds but probably not for a home setup that's more for people who are integrating these into servers and enterprise environments also they're recommending a battery backup SSD for a Zil cache and that is simply because if that drive were to fail you would actually lose data on your freenas setup so I don't want that and I don't have a battery backed up SSD so I'm not doing the xilk at l2 arc is a read cache this can help with read speeds but again only in certain situations it's also going to eat up some of your system ram so you should only really bother looking in to set up setting up an l2 art cache if you're already maxed out on system ram which I am so since I have the hardware I am going to go for that and use the hundred twenty gig course air force MP 500 as my l2 our cache and hopefully I'm going to report back and do a follow up video on some of the performance and stuff with this and FreeNAS does have a built-in monitoring tool that you can use to see if you're actually getting any benefit out of that so hopefully for home use I'll be able to come back and tell you guys if that was actually even worth it so now that I've set up my pool I can see it here in the dashboard but in order to use that pool the setting up the pool is kind of like creating a raid array we now need to create datasets on that pool and that's kind of like creating partitions on a raid array to some degree so so we're gonna go back over to storage here we're gonna choose pools we're gonna select our big 32 terabyte pool at least or whatever you named your ISM we're gonna click add datasets here there are various options you can go through as well as an advanced mode where you can tell it like how much data it X should actually use but I'm not gonna bother with any of that I'm going to go to basic mode I'm going to have it inherit most of the stuff that I setup from the data pool but I'm gonna name this media and one of the things you can do with data sets is create different ones with different rules and different levels of access and the ability to have it backed up as well with a snapshot since media is like TV shows and movies and music and stuff that is theoretically replaceable I don't want it backed up it's but it's also probably gonna be a lot of space so I'm just gonna go to the share type switch that to Windows and click save and now under our big 32 terabyte pool we have a data set called media it is there and we are almost ready to actually access it and start saving stuff to it in order to do that though we need to go over to sharing and since we're using Windows based machines here at my home we're gonna choose a Windows SMB share we're gonna add one up here we're going to direct it to the path we want to direct it to direct it to our media data set here go ahead and name it media and we're gonna allow guest access what you probably want to do for security is create users and give them individual access but for now a guest access will be just fine we can also had a periodic snapshot task but we're not going to do that right now we're just gonna hit save so to recap all your drives go into a pool data sets get created on that pool to separate your different data out and then you create a share in order to share that on the network at this point if you've done everything correctly you should be able to go over to your network on a network attached computer you should see your FreeNAS there and then your share that you just created should be available for you to go ahead and start using so I'm not going to go back and create one more data set and this one's going to be specifically for records basically I want the data in that data set to be backed up important stuff you know if you have tax info or whatever else you want to save so first I will create the new data set and I'm just going to call it records so there it is and I can create instantaneous snapshots just a one-time backup if you want but I actually want this to do this automatically so I'm gonna go up to tasks and periodic snapshot tasks I'll go ahead and create a new one so here we're going to choose the records data set that we just chose we can tell it how long to keep the snapshot we can tell it when to begin and end the task which I probably want to have it do in the middle of the night you know will say like 2:30 in the morning sure that sounds good and we can let it run for an hour and then the interval I'm just gonna have it do it once a day and right now it's got Monday through Friday but let's have it through the weekends too so go ahead and save that it's enabled and now this task should run every day at the set time and then it'll save the snapshots into a directory on the FreeNAS now that I've created a share for it I can go and see that on the network and then from here you can actually go to properties and previous versions there's none right now because it's not 2:30 in the morning so it hasn't run yet but you'll be able to see previous versions here and then you would be able to recover that and the cool thing is the snapshots that are created are read-only so even if you get hit with like a cryptolocker virus or something like that you should still be able to recover your most important stuff from those snapshots if you really need to now guys I was additionally planning to make this video a bit longer and a bit more in depth but some stuff has come up this week that is exciting but also has caused me to lose a lot of time so the upshot is I have some really cool videos coming up very soon that I think you guys will be interested in but this initial setup video for the freenas I've had to limit to really just kind of the basic steps to get things up and running to actually access it on my network I do have another freenas video that I made for my old set up so if you guys want to check that out I have a few more details that I go into there of course it is the older version so the UI is different but essentially it's the same type of functionality if you enjoyed this video though hit the thumbs up button and of course subscribe for more tech videos coming at you very soon thanks again for watching guys and we'll see you next time