janne.hallenius
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- Jun 21, 2012
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Hi!
My preliminary setup is the following:
Casing: Fractal Design Define R3
Memory: Corsair 16GB (2x8192MB) CL10 1600MHz VENGEANCE
Motherboard: Asus P8Z77-V
Power supply: Fractal Design Tesla R2 500W 80+ Gold
CPU: Intel Core i5 3450 3,1Ghz (Ivy Bridge)
Hard drives: 6 x 3TB Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm SATA 6Gbit/s
Will run FreeNas of course and on my motherboard there is 4 x SATA 6GB/s connections and another 4 x 3 GB/s connections. I have got six drives though (7 with the SSD), all 6GB/S
As cache I might use a:
SSD 60GB INTEL 330 RESELLER 2.5
Now, my question is, should I get a separate controller card to plug in to one or two of the PCI lots and get all the hard drives on SATA 3 or should I just use the onboard connections, which is a mix
I have looked in to the FreeBSD hardware recommendations and I can't find any SATA III cards there that are easy to come by. ADAPTEC do manufacture a new series called the 7 series
http://www.adaptec.com/en-us/products/series/7/
They are not on the list but on the other hand, ADAPTEC seem to produce compatible controllers, am I right?
These are actually RAID controllers so maybe some other adapter would be in place if I am running ZFS? Or should I just turn RAID off on the card?
Anyway, does anyone have experience with some kind of controller that is compatible with FreeNAS 8.3 and maybe also with a setup similar to mine?!
Haven't found any good info so far on the forum
Thanks a lot
Jan
My preliminary setup is the following:
Casing: Fractal Design Define R3
Memory: Corsair 16GB (2x8192MB) CL10 1600MHz VENGEANCE
Motherboard: Asus P8Z77-V
Power supply: Fractal Design Tesla R2 500W 80+ Gold
CPU: Intel Core i5 3450 3,1Ghz (Ivy Bridge)
Hard drives: 6 x 3TB Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm SATA 6Gbit/s
Will run FreeNas of course and on my motherboard there is 4 x SATA 6GB/s connections and another 4 x 3 GB/s connections. I have got six drives though (7 with the SSD), all 6GB/S
As cache I might use a:
SSD 60GB INTEL 330 RESELLER 2.5
Now, my question is, should I get a separate controller card to plug in to one or two of the PCI lots and get all the hard drives on SATA 3 or should I just use the onboard connections, which is a mix
I have looked in to the FreeBSD hardware recommendations and I can't find any SATA III cards there that are easy to come by. ADAPTEC do manufacture a new series called the 7 series
http://www.adaptec.com/en-us/products/series/7/
They are not on the list but on the other hand, ADAPTEC seem to produce compatible controllers, am I right?
These are actually RAID controllers so maybe some other adapter would be in place if I am running ZFS? Or should I just turn RAID off on the card?
Anyway, does anyone have experience with some kind of controller that is compatible with FreeNAS 8.3 and maybe also with a setup similar to mine?!
Haven't found any good info so far on the forum
Thanks a lot
Jan