datastore NAS

[ghitz]

Hi All,
I have a question and need to know the drawback.
To avoid a RAID card pass thru in esxi5.1 for a NAS image, would it be possible to just add the disks (2 * 3Tb) to the MB SATA (Intel DQ77KB) and create 2 large ~3Tb vmdks disks in my Windows 2012 server image and then just use them under Storage Spaces in Windows as such?

 

[ghitz]

I guess this is a dumb question. No replies yet

 

[ToddW2]

Might be best to ask in the SSD / Drive forum.

 

[ghitz]

Thanks, I asked here since it's for esxi whitebox.

 

[danswartz]

yeah you can do that.

 

[ghitz]

cool, will try it and see what readings I get to and from.