Hi folks,
i´m not completly new to freenas/truenas, but now i want to move my main file storage to a truenas core installation using a HP Microserver Gen8. I already tested the hardware with 2 x 1 TB WD-drives every now and then since a year or so, and it worked really good. As i had some old NTFS formatted disks lying around, i isntalled Windows Server 2022 on the Microserver Gen8 to copy those files to a new external drive, which i would later copy to the truenas installation. This installation wasn´t as straight forward as the truenas installation about one year ago. I wanted to install to a SSD and the drive installed in slot 1 wasn´t showing up in the drive menu from windows. I tried to install the driver for the built-in B120i raid controller which worked fine, but the drive still wasn´t showing. I looked into the raid controller application (HP-ACU) and saw that i had to make a raid array even when using only a single drive. So now i looked into the BIOS and saw that i can disable the raid controller as a whole and use it as a HBA with standard AHCI mode. After switching to AHCI and disabling the controller my SSD-drive showed up in the windows installation.
My questions is now: What would be the best practice for my later truenas installation? As i know ZFS wants direct communication with the drives, so using a RAID-controller in front of it isn´t the prefered method. But with the BIOS default settings where the RAID-controller is active, but no raid array configured, the drives show up as separated drives in the truenas installation?! Thats really weird. Anybody got an answer for this? Is there a way to controll inside truenas over cli or something if the controller is acting like an HBA or a RAID-controller?
Thanks for your help!
Greets George
PS: Here are screenshots from the bespoken BIOS-settings:
i´m not completly new to freenas/truenas, but now i want to move my main file storage to a truenas core installation using a HP Microserver Gen8. I already tested the hardware with 2 x 1 TB WD-drives every now and then since a year or so, and it worked really good. As i had some old NTFS formatted disks lying around, i isntalled Windows Server 2022 on the Microserver Gen8 to copy those files to a new external drive, which i would later copy to the truenas installation. This installation wasn´t as straight forward as the truenas installation about one year ago. I wanted to install to a SSD and the drive installed in slot 1 wasn´t showing up in the drive menu from windows. I tried to install the driver for the built-in B120i raid controller which worked fine, but the drive still wasn´t showing. I looked into the raid controller application (HP-ACU) and saw that i had to make a raid array even when using only a single drive. So now i looked into the BIOS and saw that i can disable the raid controller as a whole and use it as a HBA with standard AHCI mode. After switching to AHCI and disabling the controller my SSD-drive showed up in the windows installation.
My questions is now: What would be the best practice for my later truenas installation? As i know ZFS wants direct communication with the drives, so using a RAID-controller in front of it isn´t the prefered method. But with the BIOS default settings where the RAID-controller is active, but no raid array configured, the drives show up as separated drives in the truenas installation?! Thats really weird. Anybody got an answer for this? Is there a way to controll inside truenas over cli or something if the controller is acting like an HBA or a RAID-controller?
Thanks for your help!
Greets George
PS: Here are screenshots from the bespoken BIOS-settings:
