Intial install of TrueNAS 13

[kdmiller45]

• Motherboard make and model
• CPU make and model Intel
• RAM quantity 32Gig
• Hard drives, quantity, model numbers, and RAID configuration, including boot drives qty 4 2tb SAS drives RAID looking for suggestion
• Hard disk controllers P410i
• Network cards qty 4

Looking at a fresh install from bottom up, what is the suggested RAID config,

Keith

 

[MrGuvernment]

Do you want speed, or redundancy?

How much space do you need vs what are you willing to give us to have better data security?

 

[HoneyBadger]

Hard disk controllers P410i

Not suitable hardware, unfortunately - please see the post below:

What's all the noise about HBA's, and why can't I use a RAID controller?

This is relevant to FreeNAS and TrueNAS CORE. Some parts of it might also be relevant to Scale, but I don't really know how reliable the Linux drivers are. 1) An HBA is a Host Bus Adapter. This is a controller that allows SAS and SATA devices to be attached to, and communicate directly with...

www.truenas.com

Based on your system description, I'm inferring that you have some kind of G6 or G7 HP ProLiant server - a DL380 perhaps - but can you provide an exact model number?