Hello,
I'm new to FreeNAS, and just received a MiniXL+. At this time, I plan to run it with just 4 HDDs (WD Red 3Tb), and would like to get a little bit of advice, and better understand the unit.
I would like to know if it would be a good idea to populate the HDDs in alternate bays, and what are the possible implications of doing so.
(ie: instead of placing the 4 HDDs into bays 1,2,3,4; to instead place them in bays 1,3,5,7 instead). The general thinking is, while there are only 4 drives, doing so might help keep the drive temperatures a little lower, or do you think there is generally no point to do so, and I should just put my drives into bays 1/2/3/4 instead?
Questions that I have about this include:
a.1) At a later time, would I be able to move the drives between bays easily? (eg: power off the unit, and move drives 3/5/6 into bays 2/3/4 respectively)?
The main reason for thinking about this is, I decide to add another 4 drives, I may prefer to keep them logically grouped so it would be easier for me to keep track of them.
a.2) Or similarly, if I had 8 drives (2 pools of different HDDs) do you think it might be better to keep them interleaved (ie: Pool-1 in bays 1/3/5/7, Pool-2 in bays 2/4/6/8) for for better thermal consistency?
b) More importantly, if for any reason my MiniXL+ unit has some sort of failure, would I be able to transplant these drives into a 4-bay FreeNAS unit, or perhaps another 8-bay unit's bays 5/6/7/8 (because bays 1/2/3/4 are currently in use...); or into bays 2/4/6/8 of another 8-bay unit that was similarly setup?
Thanks!
I'm new to FreeNAS, and just received a MiniXL+. At this time, I plan to run it with just 4 HDDs (WD Red 3Tb), and would like to get a little bit of advice, and better understand the unit.
I would like to know if it would be a good idea to populate the HDDs in alternate bays, and what are the possible implications of doing so.
(ie: instead of placing the 4 HDDs into bays 1,2,3,4; to instead place them in bays 1,3,5,7 instead). The general thinking is, while there are only 4 drives, doing so might help keep the drive temperatures a little lower, or do you think there is generally no point to do so, and I should just put my drives into bays 1/2/3/4 instead?
Questions that I have about this include:
a.1) At a later time, would I be able to move the drives between bays easily? (eg: power off the unit, and move drives 3/5/6 into bays 2/3/4 respectively)?
The main reason for thinking about this is, I decide to add another 4 drives, I may prefer to keep them logically grouped so it would be easier for me to keep track of them.
a.2) Or similarly, if I had 8 drives (2 pools of different HDDs) do you think it might be better to keep them interleaved (ie: Pool-1 in bays 1/3/5/7, Pool-2 in bays 2/4/6/8) for for better thermal consistency?
b) More importantly, if for any reason my MiniXL+ unit has some sort of failure, would I be able to transplant these drives into a 4-bay FreeNAS unit, or perhaps another 8-bay unit's bays 5/6/7/8 (because bays 1/2/3/4 are currently in use...); or into bays 2/4/6/8 of another 8-bay unit that was similarly setup?
Thanks!