Hardware update questions... hdd compatibility with onboard chipset.

[NeoNot]

I am looking to replace some smaller drives in my NAS.
Presently my NAS uses:
Asus P5N-D mother board with the Nvidia 750Sli chipset.
I am looking to upgrade the hard drives from 500gig to 3 or 4tb drives.
Has anyone tried drives above 2gig with this board?
If you have do they use the full drives capacity properly?

Any information is greatly appreciated.

 

[gpsguy]

Have you looked at the memory requirements for FreeNAS? 8Gb is the minimum. Your mobo is old and will only accept a maximum of 8Gb.

I'd upgrade the motherboard. See the stickies for hardware suggestions.


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[NeoNot]

The board I have listed has been in use for a little over a year now, with my current hardware configuration.
I have seen no issues with it.
I simply need to increase the storage capacity and cant justify paying more for a 2tb hdd when a 3 or even 4tb is roughly the same price.

 

[gpsguy]

Are you using ZFS or UFS? How much RAM do you have now?


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[NeoNot]

I am running UFS and 4 gigs of ram.

 

[gpsguy]

Sorry, I got you confused with a different user running ZFS on 4Gb. As long as you stay with UFS, 4Gb is fine.

I can't answer your original question. You might try a Google search.

 

[cyberjock]

I don't believe UFS lets you expand your raid with bigger disks like ZFS does. I think you'd be forced to go ZFS, which basically means a whole new server for you.

 

[NeoNot]

What is the largest capacity disks UFS supports?

I know 1tb works as I have one in the system now.
I will purchase 2tb drives if I have to but would prefer to go to 3 or even 4tb drives since they are just $10-50 more.
I wasn't aware of a UFS issue I was more concerned about the bios/controller seeing them correctly.

I have google'd:
Nvidia 750i controller specs
Nvidia 750i 4tb hdd compatible
P5N-d hdd compatibility
etc.....

None of the above have returned any results that say if this board/chipset will work with the larger drives.
I found one forum were someone talked about a 4tb drive not reporting right in windows but they upgraded a driver and saw no further issues.
Needless to say that doesn't help me a lot since I am not dealing with windows nor did they say what driver it was they updated.
Maybe I am wrong but I would think the problem would be in the bios if there was going to be one.

 

[MaestroTech]

Asus P5N-D mother board??

I hate piggy backing on old threads. But, I have this motherboard and was unable to get the network card to be detected. Anything special I need to do?

 

[cyberjock]

Asus P5N-D mother board??

I hate piggy backing on old threads. But, I have this motherboard and was unable to get the network card to be detected. Anything special I need to do?

Yes. Buy better hardware.

 

[MaestroTech]

Maybe my question wasn't clear enough.

The OP, NeoNot, was able to get FreeNAS working with an Asus P5N-D motherboard. I also have an Asus P5N-D motherboard. However, when I installed FreeNAS the network card was not detected. Could someone please point me to documentation or offer a tip that would show me how NeoNot got FreeNAS working on their Asus P5N-D motherboard so that I may do the same.

Thank you.

 

[gpsguy]

Given the age of the message and the fact that NeoNot was using UFS means that he was using an older version of FreeNAS. If the NIC was supported in the past, it appears that support for it might have been dropped in newer versions.

The quick fix would be to buy an Intel Pro/1000 NIC. OEM copies cost ~ $30 USD.

That being said, your mobo is old, doesn't support ECC RAM, and maximum amout of RAM is 8GB. 8GB is the minimum requirement for FreeNAS,

Rather than pour money into an old box, consider buying new hardware. Look in the hardware forum for a sticky on suggestions.


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[MaestroTech]

gpsguy: Thank you very much for your kind suggestions and your insight. I think I'll try to find the older version of FreeNAS.

 

[Robert Trevellyan]

I think I'll try to find the older version of FreeNAS.

Also consider NAS4Free.

 

[MaestroTech]

Hi Robert. Thank you for your suggestion. I totally tried NAS4Free and experienced the same exact NIC detection issue.