So, as per my previous thread, I need to rebuild my fileserver from scratch, and I'd like to do it correctly this time, instead of just going with the FreeNAS defaults. Here's what I have for hardware:
Configuration as follows:
Build FreeNAS-9.3-STABLE-201512121950
Platform Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5570 @ 2.93GHz
Memory 49109MB
HP Z800 workstation, dual X5570, 48gb ECC-RAM, AS#460838-002 motherboard, add-on PCIex LSI LSI00303 (9207-4i4e) SATA/SAS HBA
6x 4TB HGST DeskStar 7200 SATA (One currently has all my data backed up to it, so I don't want to use it right now, and a 2nd one has been identified as bad and will likely be RMA'd, so is not currently available)
So with 4x 4TB drives currently available, how should I proceed? Create a VDdev with all 4 drives and then a RaidZ2 array? Then when my other 2x 4TB drives are available (data copied off the one, and the other returned from RMA) what should I do? Just keep them handy as spares, or add them to a separate VDev?
Configuration as follows:
Build FreeNAS-9.3-STABLE-201512121950
Platform Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5570 @ 2.93GHz
Memory 49109MB
HP Z800 workstation, dual X5570, 48gb ECC-RAM, AS#460838-002 motherboard, add-on PCIex LSI LSI00303 (9207-4i4e) SATA/SAS HBA
6x 4TB HGST DeskStar 7200 SATA (One currently has all my data backed up to it, so I don't want to use it right now, and a 2nd one has been identified as bad and will likely be RMA'd, so is not currently available)
So with 4x 4TB drives currently available, how should I proceed? Create a VDdev with all 4 drives and then a RaidZ2 array? Then when my other 2x 4TB drives are available (data copied off the one, and the other returned from RMA) what should I do? Just keep them handy as spares, or add them to a separate VDev?