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I've got an unRAID 5.x (trial version) server, that I never bothered to get around to paying for the full license for. The server has six 7200RPM 2TB Hitachi drives on the ICH9R, and four 5400RPM 2TB Hitachi drives, currently on a PCI Silicon Image 4-port SATA1 controller card. Mobo is Gigabyte P35-something, with 8GB DDR2, and a Q6600, underclocked to 1.8, I think.
I'm only actually using three of the 7200RPM 2TB drives, one for parity, and two for storage.
Would like to shake things up a bit here, and maybe switch to FreeNAS and use RAIDZ2, after reading the post that 10 drives is an "ideal" number for both RAIDZ2 and 4K-sector drives. (Although, my drives are 512byte, not even 512e, they were the last drives made that were 2TB that worked with WHSv1, my original preferred choice of OS. New replacement drives would be 4K with 512e though.)
I am planning, at some point, to purchase a 4-port SATA6G Marvell-chipset controller card, although I could throw in two 2-port cards. (Currently already have some 2-port Marvell and ASMedia cards.)
Am I on the right track, or should I simply pay for an unRAID 6.x license, to take advantage of the virtualization stuff?
I'm only actually using three of the 7200RPM 2TB drives, one for parity, and two for storage.
Would like to shake things up a bit here, and maybe switch to FreeNAS and use RAIDZ2, after reading the post that 10 drives is an "ideal" number for both RAIDZ2 and 4K-sector drives. (Although, my drives are 512byte, not even 512e, they were the last drives made that were 2TB that worked with WHSv1, my original preferred choice of OS. New replacement drives would be 4K with 512e though.)
I am planning, at some point, to purchase a 4-port SATA6G Marvell-chipset controller card, although I could throw in two 2-port cards. (Currently already have some 2-port Marvell and ASMedia cards.)
Am I on the right track, or should I simply pay for an unRAID 6.x license, to take advantage of the virtualization stuff?