When setting up a raid array, common knowledge says that hardware raid is preferable to software raid. Freenas mini freenas open source storage operating system. I have found that the freenas wont support the hardware raid. Second, hardware with fsb will always have perfomance issues.
Hardware raid strongly discouraged ixsystems community. On the raid front, freenas offers lots of choices for how volumes are assembled. When done correctly, raid is what allows you to combine disk drives while providing the necessary protection against disk failure. Freenas, an operating system that allows most hardware to work as a networkattached storage device. The server i want comes with an adaptec 5805 hardware raid card. Freenas is the simplest way to create a centralized and easily accessible place for your data. Nas4free how to create a software raid volume and share it to windows ok, i got frustrated at how unintuitive nas4free can be to setup. I want a two drive fail recovery, raid 6 or what ever freenas uses for that. Nas4free 11 how to create a software raid volume and. Instead, it has the software raid but the software raid requires 5 hdds. For those who prefer the diy approach, here are some things to look out for when setting up and managing your own freenas system.
I have a server with 16 gb ram and 4x1tb hdds configured as raid 10. So after getting some community feedback on what disk configuration i should be using in my pool i decided to test which raid configuration. This requires a modern web browser on a separate computer on the same network as the freenas device. First you should never use hardware raid with freenas and zfs. Selfbuilt nas wfreenas and a hardware raid controller. Potentially able to upgrade the hardware to another freenas box. Then in raidz1 it will take your four disks and stripe across them exactly the same as raid5. Now i have to configure that server for the freenas, but i have found that the freenas wont support the hardware raid. In fact it is best not to have one at all and let the software do all the work. Can i use the jbod option on the raid card, or do i have to buy a normal sas controller for the zfs option. I know both the dell and ibm raid controllers will report a failed jbod disk to the os. No remote ipmi management, still nonecc memory, will eventually have to upgrade since mobo wont support raid card, etc option 2 sell used hardware including the raid card, build nas box with good server equipment.
Freenas looks like a simple and quick solution to get a nas box up and running in just a few hours. You dont need a controller for that and you can use your motherboard sata ports to build the volumes. Freenas is an operating system that can be installed on virtually any hardware platform to share data over a network. Use freenas with zfs to protect, store, and back up all of your data. Its not clear if freenas will know what to do with this failure is in question. This is something of a misconception as all raid is software raid. Digital red nas hard drives for maximum reliability at the hardware level. Freenas is managed primarily through a graphical user interface gui. One of the major sticking points of zfs the main file system of freenas is that you dont need a hardware raid controller. Therefore, hardware raid is not needed and should not be used with freenas. Deciding between hardware and software raid in my freenas. Like any operating system, freenas has minimum hardware.
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