calgarychris
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Hi,
I've currently got a FreeNAS system working nicely with 4 x 2TB drives running off an ASUS E35M1-I deluxe motherboard. I have space in the case, spare SATA slots and an old 40GB IDE drive and I was wondering if there's any point to adding a spare drive into the mix. I know it cannot be added as part of my existing zfs pool (I have to create a new vdev or something), but are there any reasons to add another drive (albeit slow and requiring an adapter board). I'm just wondering if anyone out there uses an old drive like this to write logs to or as a swap drive or something. No doubt there's a way to add it, I guess I'm asking if there is any point and for what purpose...
Thanks
Chris
Current system is
ASUS E35M1-I deluxe
4 x 2TB Toshiba drives
8GB RAM
Lian-Li PC-Q08b case
I've currently got a FreeNAS system working nicely with 4 x 2TB drives running off an ASUS E35M1-I deluxe motherboard. I have space in the case, spare SATA slots and an old 40GB IDE drive and I was wondering if there's any point to adding a spare drive into the mix. I know it cannot be added as part of my existing zfs pool (I have to create a new vdev or something), but are there any reasons to add another drive (albeit slow and requiring an adapter board). I'm just wondering if anyone out there uses an old drive like this to write logs to or as a swap drive or something. No doubt there's a way to add it, I guess I'm asking if there is any point and for what purpose...
Thanks
Chris
Current system is
ASUS E35M1-I deluxe
4 x 2TB Toshiba drives
8GB RAM
Lian-Li PC-Q08b case