I am currently running Freenas 11.x on a PC with (4 ) 3.5" 2 TB spinning disks for 4 years and recently had a disk failing so I created a new pool on a 4 TB disk and copied everything over as a safeguard.
I am going to upgrade hardware and hopefully increase my capacity at the same time. My plan is this
Add LI 9XXXX series HBA to the PC
Add a 8 disk SAS/SATA external enclosure connected to the HBA with a SATA splitter cable (sorry, don't know the terminology) for this.
Is this a supported configuration and are there any issues I should be aware of?
The expansion enclosure will house 3.5 or 2.5 disks (red NAS 4 TB)
Is there an advantage between 2.5 or 3.5 disks?
I am going to upgrade hardware and hopefully increase my capacity at the same time. My plan is this
Add LI 9XXXX series HBA to the PC
Add a 8 disk SAS/SATA external enclosure connected to the HBA with a SATA splitter cable (sorry, don't know the terminology) for this.
Is this a supported configuration and are there any issues I should be aware of?
The expansion enclosure will house 3.5 or 2.5 disks (red NAS 4 TB)
Is there an advantage between 2.5 or 3.5 disks?