Hello,
I'm thinking about the best way to configure my hardware for use with Freenas.
The storage controller is a HP Smart Array P800 and the storage is an MSA70 with 25x72Gb SAS drives.
I've been reading about bit rot, and figured that ZFS seems to be the way to go, but am uncertain about how to manage the system.
As far as I know the storage controller doesn't have the ability to show the raw hard drives as JBOD, so people seem to create raid0 volumes for each drive and use those volumes as "drives" for ZFS. What if a drive (==volume) would fail? I'm guessing that if I go into the raid card bios and remove the failed volume and create a new one with a new drive, ZFS will still be looking for the old configured hardware and won't find the newly created volume as an available replacement drive?
Basically my question is how to manage/monitor/replace multiple drives on HP Smart Array controllers.
(..Or maybe you have other suggestions about how to setup the raids on my hardware?)
Best regards,
I'm thinking about the best way to configure my hardware for use with Freenas.
The storage controller is a HP Smart Array P800 and the storage is an MSA70 with 25x72Gb SAS drives.
I've been reading about bit rot, and figured that ZFS seems to be the way to go, but am uncertain about how to manage the system.
As far as I know the storage controller doesn't have the ability to show the raw hard drives as JBOD, so people seem to create raid0 volumes for each drive and use those volumes as "drives" for ZFS. What if a drive (==volume) would fail? I'm guessing that if I go into the raid card bios and remove the failed volume and create a new one with a new drive, ZFS will still be looking for the old configured hardware and won't find the newly created volume as an available replacement drive?
Basically my question is how to manage/monitor/replace multiple drives on HP Smart Array controllers.
(..Or maybe you have other suggestions about how to setup the raids on my hardware?)
Best regards,