Halk
Dabbler
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- Aug 22, 2018
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So I've just moved over to FreeNAS and looks like my data isn't going to be lost (I was on Debian with a failing Z2 array and didn't want to replace drives so upgraded drive size)...
I'm now looking at getting ECC RAM which means upgrading to a compatible board/CPU. There's lots I need to consider but one of them is the motherboard.
I've been reading the very helpful breakdown on here and looking at the differences between the boards.
At present I have an LSI HBA which is compatible and has 2 SAS ports and 8 drives connected.
The two questions I need to answer about this are...
1) Is there any advantage to going up to higher end boards for more ports if all I'll ever use is 1 for the boot drive and maybe a few later for backup but years down the line?
2) This board seems limited to 64GB of memory. I'm running 8x12TB of drives, and it's really a media server although I may also run some VMs on it. Is that 64GB limit a hard limit, or is that just by using 16GB dimms and if I used 32GB I could have 128?
I'm now looking at getting ECC RAM which means upgrading to a compatible board/CPU. There's lots I need to consider but one of them is the motherboard.
I've been reading the very helpful breakdown on here and looking at the differences between the boards.
At present I have an LSI HBA which is compatible and has 2 SAS ports and 8 drives connected.
The two questions I need to answer about this are...
1) Is there any advantage to going up to higher end boards for more ports if all I'll ever use is 1 for the boot drive and maybe a few later for backup but years down the line?
2) This board seems limited to 64GB of memory. I'm running 8x12TB of drives, and it's really a media server although I may also run some VMs on it. Is that 64GB limit a hard limit, or is that just by using 16GB dimms and if I used 32GB I could have 128?