I've just received my new (to me) Dell R510 12-bay. It's equipped with:
I guess what I need to know is what HBA I should pick up - I am used to hardware RAID and very competent in virtualization, but FreeNAS is newish to me. Do I need to mirror the SSDs or is one recommended? There are two 2.5" bays internal to the machine that will hold SSDs nicely. I looked and it seems that the IBM M5015 is "supported" - should I get that card or is an M1015 an option - which is better? Any advice there is appreciated! Thanks all!
Jon
- Two Intel E5620's (4c/8t, 2.4GHz)
- 64GB DDR3 ECC Memory
- Intel Pro/1000 Quad Port 1 GbE NIC
- iDRAC Enterprise
- Dual PSU
- Twelve WD Enterprise 1TB SATA disks
- One (or two?) Samsung 850 Evo 250GB SATA SSDs (advice needed)
- Two SanDisk 32GB thumb drives (internal USB ports)
- PERC 6/i to be replaced with some sort of HBA (advice needed)
I guess what I need to know is what HBA I should pick up - I am used to hardware RAID and very competent in virtualization, but FreeNAS is newish to me. Do I need to mirror the SSDs or is one recommended? There are two 2.5" bays internal to the machine that will hold SSDs nicely. I looked and it seems that the IBM M5015 is "supported" - should I get that card or is an M1015 an option - which is better? Any advice there is appreciated! Thanks all!
Jon