Folks,
My first post... so please forgive any inherent newbie-ness.
Like many here, I've been playing around with my first FreeNAS server, and now I'm ready to get serious.
Currently, I've got 3 x 2.0TB SATA Drives available, and another 2.0TB & 1.0TB waiting in the wings (I won't be able to free the 2.0TB up for another couple of months though) to be used/integrated at a later date.
The system I'm playing with has 8GB RAM, 6 available SATA ports, and boots FreeNAS 9.2x off of a USB thumb drive. I've had a 2 x 2TB Stripe running for a while, so I know the hardware is all good.
What I need advice on is the planning. I want to build a server now with the 3 x 2.0TB drives... but with the knowledge that i will be adding to it in the next few months... scalability is the key.
Can I build a 3 x Drive server now, with some semblance of speed and availability, and add a 4th 2.0 TB drive later (and maybe a 5th?) and build up from that? Can the 1.0TB drive be used somehow to improve redundancy?
Thoughts? Suggestions? More information needed?
Thanks in advance.
My first post... so please forgive any inherent newbie-ness.
Like many here, I've been playing around with my first FreeNAS server, and now I'm ready to get serious.
Currently, I've got 3 x 2.0TB SATA Drives available, and another 2.0TB & 1.0TB waiting in the wings (I won't be able to free the 2.0TB up for another couple of months though) to be used/integrated at a later date.
The system I'm playing with has 8GB RAM, 6 available SATA ports, and boots FreeNAS 9.2x off of a USB thumb drive. I've had a 2 x 2TB Stripe running for a while, so I know the hardware is all good.
What I need advice on is the planning. I want to build a server now with the 3 x 2.0TB drives... but with the knowledge that i will be adding to it in the next few months... scalability is the key.
Can I build a 3 x Drive server now, with some semblance of speed and availability, and add a 4th 2.0 TB drive later (and maybe a 5th?) and build up from that? Can the 1.0TB drive be used somehow to improve redundancy?
Thoughts? Suggestions? More information needed?
Thanks in advance.