Visseroth
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So I'm looking at buying a new server, well new to me but used and I'm curious if the backplane for the server will limit the size of the drives I can use.
I know the SAS RAID controllers limit the size of the drive(s) you can use but does anyone know if the backplane will be a limiting factor as well??
If I do buy a 24 bay server I'm looking at replacing the RAID controller with something like this......
of coarse I won't be running a hardware raid but instead the FreeNAS ZFS array but I want to be sure this isn't going to limit me to 2TB drives or smaller. I'm wanting to run 4 or 6TB drives with the ability to upgrade at later dates, hence the 24 bay server. 12 in use, 12 available to move data to a new pool so the old can be taken down.
Thought, ideas, input are all appreciated!
I know the SAS RAID controllers limit the size of the drive(s) you can use but does anyone know if the backplane will be a limiting factor as well??
If I do buy a 24 bay server I'm looking at replacing the RAID controller with something like this......
of coarse I won't be running a hardware raid but instead the FreeNAS ZFS array but I want to be sure this isn't going to limit me to 2TB drives or smaller. I'm wanting to run 4 or 6TB drives with the ability to upgrade at later dates, hence the 24 bay server. 12 in use, 12 available to move data to a new pool so the old can be taken down.
Thought, ideas, input are all appreciated!