I have a HP Proliant ML10 Gen9 that I have fiddled with, but I have yet to add harddisks to it. My purpose will mostly be a simple central file storage to the rest of the house. Possibly also doing some datacollection from some camera's in the future. Or other stuff I haven't thought of yet, but nothing special.
I bought a 'Chinese' PCIe to 4xSATA. If it is recognised, should I use if for a 7 or 8 disc raidz2 or should I limit it to 6 discs on the mainboard (trustworthy) and add another separate raidZ1/Z2/mirror to the PCIe board? I have 6x3TB and 1x4TB to put in a 7 disc raidz2, so I could e.g. do a 6x3TB Z2 and a 2x4TB mirror on the PCIe card.
This is both a question in should I trust the 'Chinese' cheapo board as well as in general if it is safer to not mix mainboard and PCIe sataconnectors (I have views on this, but would appreciate your views).
I found a Proliant 4port Gb PCIe card (NC364T, prices ranging from 40 to >400$ :D). Not a clue where I got it from. (a) will it work with FreeNas? and (b) is there any advantage of adding it? I have read of servers having multiple LANports, but have never researched what the advantage might be (in a simple home-network).
I had more Q's, but forgot. Will add them if needed (and remembered) later...
I bought a 'Chinese' PCIe to 4xSATA. If it is recognised, should I use if for a 7 or 8 disc raidz2 or should I limit it to 6 discs on the mainboard (trustworthy) and add another separate raidZ1/Z2/mirror to the PCIe board? I have 6x3TB and 1x4TB to put in a 7 disc raidz2, so I could e.g. do a 6x3TB Z2 and a 2x4TB mirror on the PCIe card.
This is both a question in should I trust the 'Chinese' cheapo board as well as in general if it is safer to not mix mainboard and PCIe sataconnectors (I have views on this, but would appreciate your views).
I found a Proliant 4port Gb PCIe card (NC364T, prices ranging from 40 to >400$ :D). Not a clue where I got it from. (a) will it work with FreeNas? and (b) is there any advantage of adding it? I have read of servers having multiple LANports, but have never researched what the advantage might be (in a simple home-network).
I had more Q's, but forgot. Will add them if needed (and remembered) later...