Hello all -
I am going to use an old SC440 to setup FreeNAS 8.3.x with:
Dell SC440
6 GB RAM
4x 1 TB Hitachi drives (received for free)
The SC440 only supports 2x drives via the motherboard even though there are 4x SATA ports on the board. I bought 2x 5.25 HDD bays for the machine as well as an IDE to CF adapter along with a 4 GB CF card. I don't plan on updating beyond this since I believe I'll just build another box at that time. The SC440 is limited, but I believe should work well enough for a couple years.
Since I plan on using ZFS instead of HW RAID, what controller would you guys suggest? Since I can use two of the onboard SATA ports, I believe I'll only need a 2 port card, but am not opposed to picking up a cheaper 4 port card if reliability is higher.
Thanks!
I am going to use an old SC440 to setup FreeNAS 8.3.x with:
Dell SC440
6 GB RAM
4x 1 TB Hitachi drives (received for free)
The SC440 only supports 2x drives via the motherboard even though there are 4x SATA ports on the board. I bought 2x 5.25 HDD bays for the machine as well as an IDE to CF adapter along with a 4 GB CF card. I don't plan on updating beyond this since I believe I'll just build another box at that time. The SC440 is limited, but I believe should work well enough for a couple years.
Since I plan on using ZFS instead of HW RAID, what controller would you guys suggest? Since I can use two of the onboard SATA ports, I believe I'll only need a 2 port card, but am not opposed to picking up a cheaper 4 port card if reliability is higher.
Thanks!