FreeNAS on a pass trough HighPoint Rocketraid?

[stajo]

Hi

I have a dusty box with disks that has been going for a while, but now when one of the drives started wiggling I am not so fond of it anymore. It is a homebrewn MSI mini-ITX with a Celeron 2,50 GHz, 8 Gb RAM, an SSD, and a HighPoint Rocketraid 2720 connected to 8 3,5 inch disks in Raid5. It has been hosting my media for many years, but now when a disk is starting to give up I realize that it is not very optimal.

When thinking of changing disks I of course wandered off in mind on maybe I should change the lot. Yea that would be nice but spare time is somewhat short for me atm. Then I ended up here:). My question is, do you think I could wait a while with building me a new rig and use the old one for a version 0.5 FreeNAS solution? I was thinking to skip the HW raid and just expose the disks directly to FreeNAS. Would it work? Would it be very stupid?

Best regards
Staffan

 

[blueether]

A quick search on here would say that the HighPoint Rocketraid 2720 is to be avoided at all costs with freenas. It looks like it won't do propper JBOD from a quick read. Freenas expects full access to the harddrives - no raid card in between.

SOLVED - SMART Status with RocketRaid 2720 SGL

Hi, First of all, I should say I am new to FreeNas and *nix systems. So apologies if I've made some idiot mistake. I have built a new NAS box with 6 drives in it. 2 are connected to the motherboard's SATA ports, and 4 are connected to a RocketRaid 2720 SGL via SAS. FreeNas seems to b working...

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[stajo]

Thank you, saved me some headache. Ill have to look for a new controller or new board then.