farukhkhan21
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Hello Guys,
Trying to build a freenas setup. I have 3 seagate ironwolf HDD. But the board I am trying to build the freenas onto has only two SATA3 ports. And it also has two USB3.0 ports. Is it possible to plug in two of my seagate drives into the SATA3 ports and use one USB3.0 port to connect the remaining one HDD? Planning to go for a 3 HDD mirrored setup. So, same data mirrored between the 3 disks. If I go for this approach, will freenas have some issues doing the mirroring for any latency problems? Like is there a latency overhead if I go from the USB3.0 interface compared to the direct SATA3 interface? Will this setup work without any problem? Or do I need to take some variables into consideration before proceeding?
Also, another small question is that, can I use one NVMe SSD and have 3 separate partitions in the NVMe SSD for holding the freenas os in one partition, use another partition for L2ARC and the last partition for SLOG/ZIL? Is it a safe approach? Any suggestions regarding this?
Thank You.
Trying to build a freenas setup. I have 3 seagate ironwolf HDD. But the board I am trying to build the freenas onto has only two SATA3 ports. And it also has two USB3.0 ports. Is it possible to plug in two of my seagate drives into the SATA3 ports and use one USB3.0 port to connect the remaining one HDD? Planning to go for a 3 HDD mirrored setup. So, same data mirrored between the 3 disks. If I go for this approach, will freenas have some issues doing the mirroring for any latency problems? Like is there a latency overhead if I go from the USB3.0 interface compared to the direct SATA3 interface? Will this setup work without any problem? Or do I need to take some variables into consideration before proceeding?
Also, another small question is that, can I use one NVMe SSD and have 3 separate partitions in the NVMe SSD for holding the freenas os in one partition, use another partition for L2ARC and the last partition for SLOG/ZIL? Is it a safe approach? Any suggestions regarding this?
Thank You.