Musicman9835
Cadet
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- Jan 16, 2014
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Hi all, my name is Keith and I'm a network admin.
I'm a one-man IT solution in a small-medium sized company. Long story short, my predecessor had a darwin moment when he decided to expand our server room by using an electric saw to remove plaster and drywall, creating a toxic cloud of dust for the duration of 4 or 6 hours inside the server room, thus damaging anything and everything that had a cooling fan attached. Yes, all the equipment was running and uncovered ... The first thing to go was the tape backup drive.
Since it costs $4k roughly to replace the drive (at that time), I had decided to move our backup system to NAS. I bought two seagate blackarmor NAS devices with 4- 1TB drives, raid 5'd them, and set up the built in iSCSI drivers on our win 2008R2 server. In all, I got 2TB usable NAS storage, and made one a backup NAS, and the other an archive.
So, now, we're at capacity, so I talked to Seagate's support and yes my NAS can be upgraded to 3TB HDD's, but in reading more, I gather that the built-in iSCSI interface has a 2TB limit. Is that correct? It would explain why I only get 2TB when the device reports 2.68 available after raid striping.
Is FreeNAS a potential solution to this issue? I'm not looking to suit it to any odd configurations or VM or anything, just a simple network and hopefully a simple solution. I appreciate any input, thanks!
I'm a one-man IT solution in a small-medium sized company. Long story short, my predecessor had a darwin moment when he decided to expand our server room by using an electric saw to remove plaster and drywall, creating a toxic cloud of dust for the duration of 4 or 6 hours inside the server room, thus damaging anything and everything that had a cooling fan attached. Yes, all the equipment was running and uncovered ... The first thing to go was the tape backup drive.
Since it costs $4k roughly to replace the drive (at that time), I had decided to move our backup system to NAS. I bought two seagate blackarmor NAS devices with 4- 1TB drives, raid 5'd them, and set up the built in iSCSI drivers on our win 2008R2 server. In all, I got 2TB usable NAS storage, and made one a backup NAS, and the other an archive.
So, now, we're at capacity, so I talked to Seagate's support and yes my NAS can be upgraded to 3TB HDD's, but in reading more, I gather that the built-in iSCSI interface has a 2TB limit. Is that correct? It would explain why I only get 2TB when the device reports 2.68 available after raid striping.
Is FreeNAS a potential solution to this issue? I'm not looking to suit it to any odd configurations or VM or anything, just a simple network and hopefully a simple solution. I appreciate any input, thanks!