RAID 1 question/concern [SOLVED]
Hello. I turned an old Compaq D500 PC into my first NAS box using FreeNAS.
It has two SATA II 500GB Hitachi hard drives and a SATA controller card --> (VANTEC 4-Port SATA 150 PCI Combo Host Card w/RAID Model UGT-ST320R)
I have setup RAID 1 on the controller for the hard drives. I mirrored (copied) the source drive to the target drive successfully.
Here is my question/concern...
When I got into FreeNAS and go to add the volume, it sees the hard drives as two separate drives and not one drive. Is this normal? Am I doing something wrong?
If this is normal, I would just choose the source hard drive only to put data on, as my controller would mirror it the target, correct?
Hello. I turned an old Compaq D500 PC into my first NAS box using FreeNAS.
It has two SATA II 500GB Hitachi hard drives and a SATA controller card --> (VANTEC 4-Port SATA 150 PCI Combo Host Card w/RAID Model UGT-ST320R)
I have setup RAID 1 on the controller for the hard drives. I mirrored (copied) the source drive to the target drive successfully.
Here is my question/concern...
When I got into FreeNAS and go to add the volume, it sees the hard drives as two separate drives and not one drive. Is this normal? Am I doing something wrong?
If this is normal, I would just choose the source hard drive only to put data on, as my controller would mirror it the target, correct?