jagter_freenas
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- Dec 13, 2013
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Hi,
I am putting together a FreeNas box with the following:
- AsRock C 2750D4I motherboard
- 32GB ECC RAM
- 8 x 4TB Seagate Constellation ES.3 disks connected with Sata 6 GB/s
- USB 2.0 Thumb Drive as Boot Disk
- 2 x 1GB LAN
The box will be used primarily as storage for documents, media files, music and image / photoshop files in a SMB environment. It is expected that most of the time, there will not be more than 1-2 users connected and the box will be idle more than 90% of the time.
Media files will usually be streamed from the NAS, while image and photoshop files will be read and write as people edit the images.
I plan on using RAID-Z2.
From the documents, I have learned that the recommended number of disks for a RAID-Z2 is 4, 6 or 10.
As I have the disks already, the chassis is limited to 8 disks and the mother board has 8 x Sata 6GB/s ports, I need some advice
What will the consequences be if I break this rule and simply create a single RAID-Z2 vdev with 8 disks?
Should I buy two more discs and mount them in the chassis somehow and add an extra Sata controller card to have the magic number of 10 discs or is it not worth the costs and effort?
Is the FreeNas 9.1 USB Thumb drive image already configured as a Read-Only image or should I try and do this myself?
I am putting together a FreeNas box with the following:
- AsRock C 2750D4I motherboard
- 32GB ECC RAM
- 8 x 4TB Seagate Constellation ES.3 disks connected with Sata 6 GB/s
- USB 2.0 Thumb Drive as Boot Disk
- 2 x 1GB LAN
The box will be used primarily as storage for documents, media files, music and image / photoshop files in a SMB environment. It is expected that most of the time, there will not be more than 1-2 users connected and the box will be idle more than 90% of the time.
Media files will usually be streamed from the NAS, while image and photoshop files will be read and write as people edit the images.
I plan on using RAID-Z2.
From the documents, I have learned that the recommended number of disks for a RAID-Z2 is 4, 6 or 10.
As I have the disks already, the chassis is limited to 8 disks and the mother board has 8 x Sata 6GB/s ports, I need some advice
What will the consequences be if I break this rule and simply create a single RAID-Z2 vdev with 8 disks?
Should I buy two more discs and mount them in the chassis somehow and add an extra Sata controller card to have the magic number of 10 discs or is it not worth the costs and effort?
Is the FreeNas 9.1 USB Thumb drive image already configured as a Read-Only image or should I try and do this myself?