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Great to hear. Thanks for the replies everyone!

I suppose the fact I am using sata drives on a SAS controller makes it a bit confusing is all. I am not as familiar with enterprise equipment as I would like to be. Thanks for the clarification.

Hello, Building a ZFS server that will run FreeBSD and I was looking at using a couple of M1015 flashed to LSI9211-8i for my WD red 3tb drives. Does this M1015 controller after flashed to LSI9211-8i firmware allow hot swap capabilities? I would like to be able to add/remove drives without having...

Hello, This is my first server build using enterprise level equipment. I am thinking of using this case: http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/4u/846/sc846ba-r1k28.cfm I would like to if a cpu fan is necessary with the Xeon E5-2620 or if I could get away with a passive HS in a 4U case...

Oops, I thought I covered all bases. This is not just a media server, but will store ALL my stuff (school, taxes, everything important as well as non-important), so I'm interested in an appropriate balance of performance and protection. My performance requirements are simply to fill gigabit full...

Hello! I am building a ZFS server for storage. It will consist of 12 WD red 3tb hard drives. At first I thought of having 6 mirrors, then I thought what if a hdd dies in one of the mirrors, but the other has bad sectors? Ive lost data (chime in if I am incorrect here). Then I thought about 3 4...

Hello! I've been a long time lurker for quite a while now, but am undertaking a larger-scale build (at least for me) and had a few questions, so I figure now would be a good time to post :). I am building a 36TB (12*3) Supermicro server that I will be running freeBSD on. I have read multiple...

thanks for the replies everyone :)

sry for the delayed reply. I think I see how barebone virtualization would make the process less resource intensive..but: If I go with option 2 and virtualize the whole thing, how does this solve my issue of being able to rip directly to the zfs filesystem seeing as utilities such as handbrake...

Goal: to take advantage of the benefits of zfs for media storage while still being able to use tools from other OSs. For instance, running Osol or some zfs based OS for storage while still being able to use handbrake and others for ripping/encoding and the like. Hardware: core i7 940 + 6gb...