Just set up a VMWare FreeNAS box after using a solaris build for a little over a year. So far I'm very happy with the performance compared to the solaris box I was running.
I'm not a storage expert, but I'm using the 4k sector WD drives (3x 2TB) in a raidz pool. I just read that the 4k drives are not supported in the release I'm using. Because I'm using vmware, the drives were formatted individually with 8M blocks into vmdk files, then presented to FreeNAS as that. Should I consider upgrading to the beta build to better utilize the 4k drives? The performance is considerably better than the solaris box I was using, but if there is more performance to be had I'd be interested in moving that direction.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
I'm not a storage expert, but I'm using the 4k sector WD drives (3x 2TB) in a raidz pool. I just read that the 4k drives are not supported in the release I'm using. Because I'm using vmware, the drives were formatted individually with 8M blocks into vmdk files, then presented to FreeNAS as that. Should I consider upgrading to the beta build to better utilize the 4k drives? The performance is considerably better than the solaris box I was using, but if there is more performance to be had I'd be interested in moving that direction.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?