No RAID 5 support?

[heinduplessis]

I just want to confirm something: there is no Raid 5 on FreeNAS 8?

I was going to go with RaidZ until I saw the install video recommending at least 4gb RAM. I've been using FreeNAS 7 because I have an old PC and a number of drives.

I've gone through the PDF Guide, both FAQs and the WebGUI but can't conclusively determine if Raid 5 is supported.

Many thanks

 

[BrokenSpring]

RaidZ is raid 5 using the zfs filesystem.

 

[heinduplessis]

Understood, but only for high-end servers?

I gather there is no "regular" Raid 5 support on any other file system?

Should I revert back to FreeNAS 7 for my humble home file server?

 

[William Grzybowski]

It is not correct to say raidz is raid5 in zfs, they are different beasts...

graid5 (the one in freenas 7) is deprecated and will no longer be available... unless something changes

 

[heinduplessis]

Thanks, back to FreeNAS 7 for me :(

 

[heinduplessis]

Mmm.. just checking system load and I can't see excessive use while loading data to the mount point. I'm transferring @ 80Mb/s constantly. I'm running a single CPU 1.3Ghz with 256MB RAM.