13+ Freenas Hardware Raid Vs Zfs UK. Zfs and hardware raid often does not play well and you might lose the pool under certain circumstances. Freenas & zfs will provide the necessary raid capabilities.
In that server, i have a hp smart array p400 raid card running raid 5 controlling 4 wd red nas 2tb with a total of 5.5 tb of storage;
Freebsd's gmirror and zfs are great, but up until now it's been a gut feeling combined with anecdotal evidence. We recommend using a separate volume and we strongly advise against installing the storage architecture: In this post, i want to test the raid 10 hardware raid vs. When we tested mdadm and ext4, we didn't really use the entire disk—we created a 1tib partition at the head of each disk and used those 1tib partitions.