Christopher Ward
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Before I switch over to FreeNAS I'm wondering if anyone can help me. I currently already have a serrver that uses a raid controller but all my data is currupt by the looks of it. So i'll be selling the raid controller to finance a new media server.
I currently have 8x3tb WD Drives that i would like to move over and put as a RAIDZ2 from my old raid card but I also have 4 other drives (3x2tb and 1x1tb) that are mixed between samsung and western digital.
1. My question is for the the other 4 drives can i put them together and use them as a volume because I know with hardware raid you have to use the same capacity of drives and same company so I'm not sure how it works with FreeNAS.
2. Is it possible to not use any raid structure on them and just use the 7tb in total and if so what option would I chose under the volume layout.
3. if I was to buy more drives in the future can I expand the size of the RAIDZ2 volume without deleting all the data on it?
4. I will be getting ECC ram and I noticed the intel G3258 supports ECC, will this be a capable CPU for running FreeNAS with Sabnzbd, SickBeard & Plex.
5. Does the motherboard have to support ECC ram for ECC ram to work?
6. Does anyone have any motherboard suggestions, I will eventually want to fill up my 20 bay norco RPC-4220 so I'll eventually need to get 3 Sata expanders (Supermicro AOC-SAS2LP-MV8), as such I will need a full size ATX motherboard.
Thanks,
Chris.
I currently have 8x3tb WD Drives that i would like to move over and put as a RAIDZ2 from my old raid card but I also have 4 other drives (3x2tb and 1x1tb) that are mixed between samsung and western digital.
1. My question is for the the other 4 drives can i put them together and use them as a volume because I know with hardware raid you have to use the same capacity of drives and same company so I'm not sure how it works with FreeNAS.
2. Is it possible to not use any raid structure on them and just use the 7tb in total and if so what option would I chose under the volume layout.
3. if I was to buy more drives in the future can I expand the size of the RAIDZ2 volume without deleting all the data on it?
4. I will be getting ECC ram and I noticed the intel G3258 supports ECC, will this be a capable CPU for running FreeNAS with Sabnzbd, SickBeard & Plex.
5. Does the motherboard have to support ECC ram for ECC ram to work?
6. Does anyone have any motherboard suggestions, I will eventually want to fill up my 20 bay norco RPC-4220 so I'll eventually need to get 3 Sata expanders (Supermicro AOC-SAS2LP-MV8), as such I will need a full size ATX motherboard.
Thanks,
Chris.
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