Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 09:35:21 -0500 From: cruxpot <cruxpot@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD NAS hardware suggestions Message-ID: <CAPYfQ9z%2B4hA1khcaPKs=gG4BpvgZtv=YLocK-XQ8m6s=539UVA@mail.gmail.com>
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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!
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