Hi,
I am thinking in use a N36L HP Microserver with four 3 TB SAS HDs in RAID 1. N36L have SAS 8087 connector in motherboard, i don't know why but seems a SAS controller is necesary anyway. I am thinking in LSI 9207 or HP P410 because boths seems to support 3 TB HDs. Then I have read that FreeNAS works better with software raid (done by FreeNAS) than hardware raid. Also, i don't know why because N36L is not a very powerfull machine and i think that software raid is very CPU intensive. As you see I'm full of doubts and I am very lost. Are there someone with similar configuration that can help me?. What its the cheapest configuration that could work?. What is a must are my four SAS 3 TB HDs.
Thanks a lot.
I am thinking in use a N36L HP Microserver with four 3 TB SAS HDs in RAID 1. N36L have SAS 8087 connector in motherboard, i don't know why but seems a SAS controller is necesary anyway. I am thinking in LSI 9207 or HP P410 because boths seems to support 3 TB HDs. Then I have read that FreeNAS works better with software raid (done by FreeNAS) than hardware raid. Also, i don't know why because N36L is not a very powerfull machine and i think that software raid is very CPU intensive. As you see I'm full of doubts and I am very lost. Are there someone with similar configuration that can help me?. What its the cheapest configuration that could work?. What is a must are my four SAS 3 TB HDs.
Thanks a lot.