ChillyPenguin
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I have 3x 2TB drives of one brand and 2x drives of another brand. From my reading, this will be OK, as FreeNAS will just use the smallest size for each drive. Is this correct?
I plan to run RAIDZ2, so I will be buying one more drive, as I have read an even number of drives is prefered. Does it matter which I use? (the 3x drives are 5900 rpm and the 2x are 7200) Random IO is not much of a concern, this is used for large file storage and streaming video to one user at a time. If I experience a drive failure, I will just replace will 4tb drives, as I will eventually be migrating to those anyway.
Hardware will be Xeon E3-1230 and 16GB ECC RAM. I have a 120GB ssd for a cache drive. Last I checked, it is safe to use a single drive for cache, is this accurate?
Is this setup likely to be able to sustain 100MB/s sequential read over CIFS? I am currently on Openfiler on a Celeron and I can get about 70MB/s over the network, but that is limited by CIFS hitting the CPU too hard.
I plan to run RAIDZ2, so I will be buying one more drive, as I have read an even number of drives is prefered. Does it matter which I use? (the 3x drives are 5900 rpm and the 2x are 7200) Random IO is not much of a concern, this is used for large file storage and streaming video to one user at a time. If I experience a drive failure, I will just replace will 4tb drives, as I will eventually be migrating to those anyway.
Hardware will be Xeon E3-1230 and 16GB ECC RAM. I have a 120GB ssd for a cache drive. Last I checked, it is safe to use a single drive for cache, is this accurate?
Is this setup likely to be able to sustain 100MB/s sequential read over CIFS? I am currently on Openfiler on a Celeron and I can get about 70MB/s over the network, but that is limited by CIFS hitting the CPU too hard.