Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 15:48:52 +0100 From: krad <kraduk@gmail.com> To: cruxpot <cruxpot@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD NAS hardware suggestions Message-ID: <CALfReyc3gjCCru6STbn3fqaXJW0Na3082i6_YN_Z%2BHoY=sJrDw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAPYfQ9z%2B4hA1khcaPKs=gG4BpvgZtv=YLocK-XQ8m6s=539UVA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAPYfQ9z%2B4hA1khcaPKs=gG4BpvgZtv=YLocK-XQ8m6s=539UVA@mail.gmail.com>
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does that card export the drives properly or is it a raid card? If it doesn't you might be better off picking yourself up a cheap sas HBA (lsi/intel) off ebay. You can get 3 or 6 gbit ones for about =C2=A330-60 if= you bide your time On 21 July 2014 15:35, cruxpot <cruxpot@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi there, > > I am upgrading my FreeBSD 9.2 NAS box. I purchased an old Highpoint > Rocketraid 2300 from eBay along with some large disks. My motherboard > is an A8R-MVP with an old Opteron processor with 3GB RAM with no EFI > support in the legacy BIOS (AFAIK) and I am curious whether it can > either boot or access 3TB disks in a raidz pool. > > Does FreeBSD 9.2 perform well with the controller card if 4 disks are > hooked up to it? > > If I choose disks larger than 3TB, will I have to make the raidz pool > "auxiliary" and not boot from a root raidz? > > I am looking at Seagate's NAS line of drives since they seem to have > less DOA's in reviews than the WD red drives. Are these good for ZFS? > > Any other recommendations? I am doing this upgrade because the NAS > currently has Seagate Barracuda Green disks that keep dropping off (I > posted here a while back) and I think it's related to the green > drives' firmware, which cannot be modified. > > Thanks for any insight! > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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