Hi all,
I want to build up a custum NAS with FreeNAS but as a newbie in that domain I have several questions, I hope someone will be nice to answer them ^^
1. Is it best to use the software RAID5 or the hardware one ? Knowing that the NAS motherboard is an old P45 chipset.
2. The documentation say that 8Gb is a minimum for good performance, is that real ? It's look like big amount of memory just to do file sharing ?
3. I want to build my NAS in three phases, but I am not sure things are going to work as I'd like. Here is how I am thinking of doing it :
A. Creating the NAS with my current old computer hardware, I will do RAID 5 with 4 drives (2x 500gb 2x 1000gb). I will have 1.5To of storage right ?
B. Buy two new 1To drive, to replace the two old 500gb one. I will replace them one by one and let to the OS the time to recreate raid data. I will not loose any data by doing this that way ?
C. Buy a new Micro ATX motherboard and a new small case. But how will react FreeNAS when I will restart it on a totally new hardware (MB, Network adapter, ...) ? If you do such a thing to a windows computer, there is no chance for it to boot up again ..
Sorry for the long post, but I really need help on these points, thank a lot for your help.
Regards
I want to build up a custum NAS with FreeNAS but as a newbie in that domain I have several questions, I hope someone will be nice to answer them ^^
1. Is it best to use the software RAID5 or the hardware one ? Knowing that the NAS motherboard is an old P45 chipset.
2. The documentation say that 8Gb is a minimum for good performance, is that real ? It's look like big amount of memory just to do file sharing ?
3. I want to build my NAS in three phases, but I am not sure things are going to work as I'd like. Here is how I am thinking of doing it :
A. Creating the NAS with my current old computer hardware, I will do RAID 5 with 4 drives (2x 500gb 2x 1000gb). I will have 1.5To of storage right ?
B. Buy two new 1To drive, to replace the two old 500gb one. I will replace them one by one and let to the OS the time to recreate raid data. I will not loose any data by doing this that way ?
C. Buy a new Micro ATX motherboard and a new small case. But how will react FreeNAS when I will restart it on a totally new hardware (MB, Network adapter, ...) ? If you do such a thing to a windows computer, there is no chance for it to boot up again ..
Sorry for the long post, but I really need help on these points, thank a lot for your help.
Regards