Currently, I am running FreeNAS on a Dell R710 with six 2TB 7200rpm SATA drives in RAIDZ1.
I am in the process of upgrading a Dell R510 12 Bay server to run FreeNAS and was wondering if there would be a noticeable difference between 12x2TB SATA II drives vs SATA III.
I don't run any plugins or jails on my FreeNAS box but I do have a few iSCSI LUNs presented to my ESXi hosts. The R510 will have dual E5640s w/ 64GB RAM. HBA will be an LSI-9211-8i. That being said, now that FreeNAS 10 is close to being released, I will probably want to experiment with Docker and VMs.
I am wondering if there will be a noticeable difference in performance between the two.
I haven't decided if I will go with a single vdev with RAIDZ2 or two mirrored vdevs.
These are the two drives in question.
Western Digital RE WD2000FYYZ 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Enterprise Internal Hard Drive
Western Digital RE4 WD2003FYYS 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard
I am in the process of upgrading a Dell R510 12 Bay server to run FreeNAS and was wondering if there would be a noticeable difference between 12x2TB SATA II drives vs SATA III.
I don't run any plugins or jails on my FreeNAS box but I do have a few iSCSI LUNs presented to my ESXi hosts. The R510 will have dual E5640s w/ 64GB RAM. HBA will be an LSI-9211-8i. That being said, now that FreeNAS 10 is close to being released, I will probably want to experiment with Docker and VMs.
I am wondering if there will be a noticeable difference in performance between the two.
I haven't decided if I will go with a single vdev with RAIDZ2 or two mirrored vdevs.
These are the two drives in question.
Western Digital RE WD2000FYYZ 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Enterprise Internal Hard Drive
Western Digital RE4 WD2003FYYS 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard
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