Good morning,
I'm new to the forum and to FreeNAS also.
I acquired an old Dell PowerEdge 2950III server which feature 6 1TB drives and 8GB of RAM.
From what I have understanded in the wiki page is suggested with ZFS to disable hardware RAID and leave FreeNAS handle the drives via software.
My problem is that I have a Perc controller and I cannot disable the RAID from BIOS, what I read in this post is a suggestion to set the controller to RAID0, but I think is the worst scenario for a backup appliance like my case.
Should I use or not RAID hardware? And if yes with what RAID mode should I install FreeNAS?
Thanks
Marcos
I'm new to the forum and to FreeNAS also.
I acquired an old Dell PowerEdge 2950III server which feature 6 1TB drives and 8GB of RAM.
From what I have understanded in the wiki page is suggested with ZFS to disable hardware RAID and leave FreeNAS handle the drives via software.
My problem is that I have a Perc controller and I cannot disable the RAID from BIOS, what I read in this post is a suggestion to set the controller to RAID0, but I think is the worst scenario for a backup appliance like my case.
Should I use or not RAID hardware? And if yes with what RAID mode should I install FreeNAS?
Thanks
Marcos