Hard drive partitions and jumper settings

[nluna]

Noobie NAS box hard drives configuration

Hi all. Noobie here! :) I need some advice. I will be running freenas in a usb drive on a Dell Dimension 4700. I will be installing a 1.5 TB (Samsung HD153WI EcoGreen) hard drive and two other small (Western Digital) hard drives less than 100 gb each.

1. Will it be a must to partition the 1.5tb hard drive? Two, three partitions?
2. Is the jumper configuration as follows?
-jumper set to master for the 1.5TB hard drive?
-jumper set to slave for WD hard drives?

Thanks in advance.


I will be using this NAS box for a homeshare for storing media and share it with few computers in my house.

 

[SoftDux-Rudi]

1. No need to partition
2. If you use SATA then you don't need to change jumper settings.

 

[nluna]

Hi Rudi. Thanks for the info. Yes I am using SATA and those jumpers are gone! Thanks again for your help.