Hello,
I'm using FreeNAS as home user since few years. I was a "hard fan" of hardware raid and it took me a while to change my mind.
First install of FreeNAS was kinda sketchy by running it on a esxi vm and attaching a volume which was hardware "raided".
After a while I've passthough a LSI 9211-i card and connecting the drive directly, but speed still wasn't that great.
Finally, after many post reading and to improve performance, I've made a separate unit with the specs below:
- Supermicro Mainboard X11SSH-LN4F
- 2x Samsung DDR4 16GB 2400MHz CL17 ECC
- Intel XEON E3-1220V6 3.00GHZ
- 4x 6TB WD RED RAID10
- 2x 10TB WD RED RAID1
- Intel X520-DA2 10G (direct connection atm, waiting for us-16-xg :))
- LSI 9211-8i it mode
- Memory stick boot (want to change)
But my biggest mistake, was to buy chinese LSI knockoff instead of a 2nd hand one.
I've spend countless hour, switching port, cable, software until I ordered a 2nd hand card and since no problem.
Anyway that's it!
Regards
Mike
I'm using FreeNAS as home user since few years. I was a "hard fan" of hardware raid and it took me a while to change my mind.
First install of FreeNAS was kinda sketchy by running it on a esxi vm and attaching a volume which was hardware "raided".
After a while I've passthough a LSI 9211-i card and connecting the drive directly, but speed still wasn't that great.
Finally, after many post reading and to improve performance, I've made a separate unit with the specs below:
- Supermicro Mainboard X11SSH-LN4F
- 2x Samsung DDR4 16GB 2400MHz CL17 ECC
- Intel XEON E3-1220V6 3.00GHZ
- 4x 6TB WD RED RAID10
- 2x 10TB WD RED RAID1
- Intel X520-DA2 10G (direct connection atm, waiting for us-16-xg :))
- LSI 9211-8i it mode
- Memory stick boot (want to change)
But my biggest mistake, was to buy chinese LSI knockoff instead of a 2nd hand one.
I've spend countless hour, switching port, cable, software until I ordered a 2nd hand card and since no problem.
Anyway that's it!
Regards
Mike
