Hi. I seem to recall reading somewhere that you can get away with using non-NAS certified drives with a software RAID like FreeNAS; that you won't have the drop out problems. Is that accurate? My current setup is:
Chenbro RM-4140U case (16 hot swap bays, SATA backplane)
16 WD10EACS 1 TB drives with TLER enabled
Areca ARC-1160ML2 controller
ASUS M2N-LR mobo with Opteron 1218 2.6 GHz CPU
2x G.Skill 2GB DDR2 800
Since I read that you can't enable TLER on the newer drives I started looking into alternates. Of course, looking at the 3 TB offerings I see a NAS Seagate isn't much more than the regular one, but I was curious anyway. My mobo/cpu is also getting a bit "long in the tooth", think it will be up to running FreeNAS for a 42 TB RAID6 array?
Thanks!
EDIT: Actually, I just remembered that you need a buttload of RAM for FreeNAS so disregard the mobo question. I'll yank it and replace it with a mobo that has better memory support and max it out. I read that the rule of thumb is 1 GB per TB, but do you think I could skate by with 32 GB or would it be better to just go 64? Well.. obviously it would be better, I guess what I mean is would it be worth the increase in cost? I'm not concerned with performance, just so long as I can stream full HD from it to my HTPC with no lag issues.
Chenbro RM-4140U case (16 hot swap bays, SATA backplane)
16 WD10EACS 1 TB drives with TLER enabled
Areca ARC-1160ML2 controller
ASUS M2N-LR mobo with Opteron 1218 2.6 GHz CPU
2x G.Skill 2GB DDR2 800
Since I read that you can't enable TLER on the newer drives I started looking into alternates. Of course, looking at the 3 TB offerings I see a NAS Seagate isn't much more than the regular one, but I was curious anyway. My mobo/cpu is also getting a bit "long in the tooth", think it will be up to running FreeNAS for a 42 TB RAID6 array?
Thanks!
EDIT: Actually, I just remembered that you need a buttload of RAM for FreeNAS so disregard the mobo question. I'll yank it and replace it with a mobo that has better memory support and max it out. I read that the rule of thumb is 1 GB per TB, but do you think I could skate by with 32 GB or would it be better to just go 64? Well.. obviously it would be better, I guess what I mean is would it be worth the increase in cost? I'm not concerned with performance, just so long as I can stream full HD from it to my HTPC with no lag issues.
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