2 lots of raid

[Chug]

Apologies if this is a silly question, just trying out freenas again. I have 5x 3tb and 5x 1tb hard drives. Can I set these up as 2 separate zfs raids? Does each one need to be on the same controller?

I'm running a P8z68-deluxe and Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU G1620 @ 2.70GHz, typically bought a perc6i cheap before reading up on it.

Can I get by on 16gb of ram? Is there any benefit to running ram at higher speeds?

 

[Yatti420]

Apologies if this is a silly question, just trying out freenas again. I have 5x 3tb and 5x 1tb hard drives. Can I set these up as 2 separate zfs raids? Does each one need to be on the same controller?

I'm running a P8z68-deluxe and Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU G1620 @ 2.70GHz, typically bought a perc6i cheap before reading up on it.

Can I get by on 16gb of ram? Is there any benefit to running ram at higher speeds?

Yes you can run two pools.. 16gb of ram is fine.. Make sure its ecc ram.. A celwron may be a tad slow..

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[Chug]

Yeah Ive just read that thread, which cocks up the plan for the moment as it'd need a new mb, cpu and processor.

 

[Ericloewe]

Yeah Ive just read that thread, which cocks up the plan for the moment as it'd need a new mb, cpu and processor.

Actually, your processor supports ECC, so you'd only strictly need a motherboard and RAM. It may be a bit slow, but if you stick to basic file sharing, it should do.

 

[Chug]

Fair enough. It is just a film server basically. I've got a few other processors around, so could upgrade. I'm struggling to find any 1155 server boards though.

 

[Ericloewe]

Fair enough. It is just a film server basically. I've got a few other processors around, so could upgrade. I'm struggling to find any 1155 server boards though.

The LGA1155 Supermicro X9s should still be available, some people still buy them once in a while.