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[omniltd]

Hi all,
I have a very special challenge to solve.

The company I work for was contacted to solve a problem with a Video Streaming System that involves a buck of Hardware and that is not working.
Basically here the hardware configuration:

1 inter Core Duo, 2gb RAM, 1TB for Server with a Windows server 2003;
7 "blades" with 12 x 1TB Seagate HDD on "USB Cascade" from the server down to the last blade.

So in total I should have 84 HDD to play with. But I was having a problem connecting all the 7 blades (I think hardware problems) and ended up connecting 5 blades for a total of 60GB.
So what did I Thought? Let's install Freenas on a 32GB SSD and see if it recognises all 60 HDD? Well, it only recognises 50 of them.

So here's my question:
Is FreeBSD or Freenas limited to a number of HDD?


Thanks for Your Help
R. C. G. C.

 

[dlavigne]

Welcome!

Is FreeBSD or Freenas limited to a number of HDD?

No. But it does have hardware requirements, in particular, a minimum of 8GB of RAM.

 

[omniltd]

Welcome!



No. But it does have hardware requirements, in particular, a minimum of 8GB of RAM.

I know. Could it be motherboard specs?
Should I think on changing from USB to SAS Adapters with SAS Extenders for each blade?