Adaptec Raid card

[whaase]

I currently have an Adaptec Raid card on my server with 4x1.5TB drives in a raid 5 formatted with NTFS. I've been thinking about the idea of moving to FreeNAS from MS Server.

From what I've read, mounting and using a NTFS file system is not a good idea?

I was hoping to be able to use the raid as it is. Can anyone give me some solid advise?

Thanks, Walter

 

[Mirfster]

From what I've read, mounting and using a NTFS file system is not a good idea?

Correct, not recommended from what I recall.

I was hoping to be able to use the raid as it is.

No Hardware RAID is to be used. Hard drives should be connected to HBAs or the motherboard (SATA ports).

Edit: Adding some recommended reading:

Some to get you started:
Slideshow explaining VDev, zpool, ZIL and L2ARC for noobs!
Hardware recommendations (read this first)
ECC vs non-ECC RAM and ZFS
Building, Burn-In, and Testing your FreeNAS system

 

[whaase]

Perfect, thats what I needed to know

Thanks, Walter

 

[danb35]

From what I've read, mounting and using a NTFS file system is not a good idea?

Not only "not a good idea", it's not possible. Or at least, it isn't possible through the web GUI--it could probably be done at the command line, but at that point you might as well just use vanilla FreeBSD.