Hi, I'm running for nearly a year this FreeNAS config:
Case: Norco RPC-4224 (24 hotswap bays)
MB: Tyan Tempest i5000VS
CPUs: 2x Intel Xeon
RAM: 8GB ECC DDR
Controller: LSI 9280-24i4e SAS 6Gb
Drives: 8x Samsung Spinpoint 2TB in a RaidZ2 array
System: FreeNAS 8.2 Beta2
When I fist setup the system with FreeNAS 8.0, the drives where unrecognized in the FreeNAS system, so I created 8x 2TB Raid 0 virtual drives in the controller BIOS. Then booted with FreeNAS and created the array with the virtual drives. Now I reinstalled FreeNAS with the latest Beta, and drives don't show up in the GUI (only da0 -the USB flashdrive- appears), so I can't create SMART testing task.
Do I have correctly configured the controller?
Also is it recommanded to run a 16 or 24 drive RaidZ2 array, or is it too dangerous for data integrity?
Case: Norco RPC-4224 (24 hotswap bays)
MB: Tyan Tempest i5000VS
CPUs: 2x Intel Xeon
RAM: 8GB ECC DDR
Controller: LSI 9280-24i4e SAS 6Gb
Drives: 8x Samsung Spinpoint 2TB in a RaidZ2 array
System: FreeNAS 8.2 Beta2
When I fist setup the system with FreeNAS 8.0, the drives where unrecognized in the FreeNAS system, so I created 8x 2TB Raid 0 virtual drives in the controller BIOS. Then booted with FreeNAS and created the array with the virtual drives. Now I reinstalled FreeNAS with the latest Beta, and drives don't show up in the GUI (only da0 -the USB flashdrive- appears), so I can't create SMART testing task.
Do I have correctly configured the controller?
Also is it recommanded to run a 16 or 24 drive RaidZ2 array, or is it too dangerous for data integrity?