Any recommendations on a decent quality but relatively inexpensive gigabit NIC card that would fit in one of these machines? I'm looking at using one as a Zentyal gateway + infrastructure services for a home LAN...
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Looking forward to your pics of the completed project!
So... you're putting four of the 3TB 3.5" drives in the original drive bays, then using the multi-mount to fit the other two 3TB 3.5" drives in the 5.25" optical drive bay, correct? Any gotchas or extra cables necessary to...
Go on the FreeNAS forums and search for the 'Silver Bullet' 18TB build... setup with nine 2TB drives for 18TB raw, then he uses FreeNAS and ZFS from there. Good info, and current enough the guy still answers questions on it.
Just a note... I appreciate the glowing reviews of some of these LSI controllers, but please keep in mind I'm looking to use it with an *external* drive enclosure. I realize LSI makes cards for that too; just thought I'd reiterate the intended application.
I didn't necessarily mean the support got worse... but I've been getting the impression that a lot of the 'support' and 'drivers' for various RAID cards and HBAs may say 'Linux' but on closer inspection they seem to often be proprietary binary-only drivers, packaged for specific distributions...
Any particular model that you've used and know it works?
Also... seems like a lot of the controllers list Linux as in RHEL 4 or 5, or SLES 9 or 10. Since those releases are a couple years old (at least) what are the odds of the hardware working okay with more current Debian/Ubuntu releases?
Recent discussions have me leaning towards an external 4-bay SAS/SATA drive enclosure + an SAS HBA to connect to my existing Linux box. Given the wide range of products available... is there a simple, basic (and hopefully not-too-expensive) SAS HBA that would work for connecting an external...
I have a FreeNAS box (not a Microserver) connected to the router/gateway via HomePlug, and then have several laptops, etc. that connect wirelessly (802.11g). They run about the same, 3-6MB/sec. I think its more a network thing, and not a fault of the server.
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I have two older PCs on my LAN posing as 'servers'... one running FreeNAS off a USB stick using three 500GB hdds in a ZFS RAID-Z pool serving as storage for the LAN and one running Debian Lenny with an 80GB drive used as a general purpose 'tinker' box that I can ssh into, etc...
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Probably a very simple question, but without one of these units in hand to look at... for those of you who moved the included 160GB HDD up to the optical disk bay: any pictures and/or description of how you mounted & connected things?
Somewhere I'd seen a reference to putting in one of...
I have an old PC running FreeNAS from a usb stick, with three 500GB hdds in a ZFS RAID-Z pool. For the most part, it sits there on my LAN, quiet and dependable. Wish I had more storage, but for now it works well enough.
Today I was doing something I should have done originally when I set it...
So... you're saying the reason FreeNAS/ZFS lagged behind in almost every test (even behind FreeNAS/softRAID in one) is because of poor iSCSI implementation, and nothing to do with the generation of ZFS used?
Hmmm... hadn't thought about the onboard NIC not working, given that RH isn't exactly on the cutting edge as far as hardware compatibility goes. Good to know, though. I'd be very interested in how your CentOS install goes.
Still, more interested (for the purposes of this thread) in the ZFS...
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Finally decided to join after finding more and more links here and really digging the subject material ;)
Recently set up a very modest little FreeNAS box with three 500GB SATA drives in a RAID-Z pool... and have about 40% of that filled already (dang iTunes libraries had more in...