Well... i tried to move 2 of my pools that were with a Core i5, the Corei5 was too much for Freenas. I have a lot of problems with the "new" platform (MSI 975x platinum + Core2Duo)... lost devices, random checksum error on pool, after try and try i cannot make work with no errors (replace disks, cables, controllers, etc). I suspect the mother/cpu has something (ram tested with memtest), i will check later. Then frustrated i move again to the mother/corei5 combo... but i want to "fight" a little more.
Core i5 was too much... so give a try to install ESXi 5... after solving some obstacles (using some posts at the freenas forum, try and error and lot of pacience), now i have an ESX5 working with a VM Freenas accessing the Disks via RDM. I made a scrub on a pool (4 green drives) at 291 Mb/s !!!! I have RAM and more cores to install another VMs and dont waste the Core i5
Im so happy that i want to share!!... months ago im totally noob to all of this (im IT developer... not much on Server Administration)
Core i5 was too much... so give a try to install ESXi 5... after solving some obstacles (using some posts at the freenas forum, try and error and lot of pacience), now i have an ESX5 working with a VM Freenas accessing the Disks via RDM. I made a scrub on a pool (4 green drives) at 291 Mb/s !!!! I have RAM and more cores to install another VMs and dont waste the Core i5
Im so happy that i want to share!!... months ago im totally noob to all of this (im IT developer... not much on Server Administration)