Rod Martin
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- May 16, 2019
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I have been fooling around with NAS devices for a while now. The FreeNAS interface seem pretty self explanitory, and I have been able to create one in VMWare. My question is in regards to the RAID array. I would like to manage the RAID in FreeNAS, but I think that requires pretty much a software raid at this point, because I think you have to mount each drive independently with the hardware in AHCI mode, then setup the array in FreeNAS. I could be wrong, but my thoughts is that this would not be very efficient, becuase the RAID would actually be done in software. I would like to use hardware raid, but then that would be done outside of FreeNAS, at the operating system level, or BIOS level. Then, I would share the volume created in Windows 10 Pro (in my case) and pass it through to FreeNAS. But, at that point, FreeNAS would not be doing any of the managing.
I could have this all wrong, or I need some tweaks... The main thing is I want this PC to be in a native Windows environment because I will also be running CAD on this workstation. I have plenty of RAM and CPU to spare. This is also going to be a 2nd NAS, mainly for backup of my primary stand-alone QNAP. But, I also want local space for use with my CAD files.
Thoughts??
Thank you.
I could have this all wrong, or I need some tweaks... The main thing is I want this PC to be in a native Windows environment because I will also be running CAD on this workstation. I have plenty of RAM and CPU to spare. This is also going to be a 2nd NAS, mainly for backup of my primary stand-alone QNAP. But, I also want local space for use with my CAD files.
Thoughts??
Thank you.