John_n4s
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Fellow FreeNAS(ers)
My plans are to build an All-in-one ESXi system in which the latest stable FreeNAS will be ran to manage several disks with the magic of zfs.
I originally wanted to go for the famous Dell PERC H200 flashed to IT-mode but that one does not support 4k sector disks (which is going to be the future and already a reality for most 8TB+ disks if I understood correctly)
I then started looking at the H330 and HBA330. There are some posts out there claiming a H330 can be cross-flashed but all kinds of issues will arise.
Some say it is wiser to go for a HBA330 since it supports the type of passthrough that I am looking for.
I see some forum posts here and there but none of them really answer my question fully.
Could someone enlighten me which card(s) give me a guaranteed good passthrough for proper zfs use with FreeNAS on my future ESXi build?
Thank you in advance.
Kind regards,
John
My plans are to build an All-in-one ESXi system in which the latest stable FreeNAS will be ran to manage several disks with the magic of zfs.
I originally wanted to go for the famous Dell PERC H200 flashed to IT-mode but that one does not support 4k sector disks (which is going to be the future and already a reality for most 8TB+ disks if I understood correctly)
I then started looking at the H330 and HBA330. There are some posts out there claiming a H330 can be cross-flashed but all kinds of issues will arise.
Some say it is wiser to go for a HBA330 since it supports the type of passthrough that I am looking for.
I see some forum posts here and there but none of them really answer my question fully.
Could someone enlighten me which card(s) give me a guaranteed good passthrough for proper zfs use with FreeNAS on my future ESXi build?
Thank you in advance.
Kind regards,
John
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