Greetings:
I have an old Biostar/AMD machine that has 4 SATA drives and 2 IDE drives that I've been using for a "NAS" running the venerable XP. I'm moving to FreeNAS now and I'm wanting to set up a RAID but my disks range from older Seagate IDE (200Gb) to new 2.5" Toshiba notebook drives to 3.5" Samsung 1TB drives.
After reading now for a few days, my thoughts were to just RAID-Z2 the whole thing, but I only have 3GB RAM (DDR2). Uses will be for Windows client sharing for backup and media storage and will be on a home net only.
Am I looking at issues with only 3GB or RAM and ZFS or should I just make the whole thing UFS? Are there any issues with my mix-match of hard drives?
Thx for any feedback.
I have an old Biostar/AMD machine that has 4 SATA drives and 2 IDE drives that I've been using for a "NAS" running the venerable XP. I'm moving to FreeNAS now and I'm wanting to set up a RAID but my disks range from older Seagate IDE (200Gb) to new 2.5" Toshiba notebook drives to 3.5" Samsung 1TB drives.
After reading now for a few days, my thoughts were to just RAID-Z2 the whole thing, but I only have 3GB RAM (DDR2). Uses will be for Windows client sharing for backup and media storage and will be on a home net only.
Am I looking at issues with only 3GB or RAM and ZFS or should I just make the whole thing UFS? Are there any issues with my mix-match of hard drives?
Thx for any feedback.