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On 10 April 2010 14:04, Gordon Henderson <gordon+dcglug@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 10 Apr 2010, Max Siegieda wrote: > >> "It supports Software RAID (0,1,5)" >> >> What? No RAID 6? Did no-one think to provide a solution for absolutely >> massive disk arrays? > > FreeNAS is FreeBSD based, not Linux based, so maybe FreeBSD is lacking some > of the newer features that Linux has. (Although I've been using RAID-6 with > Linux for a good few years now - 5?) Personally, I'll never use RAID-5 again > - after having a 2nd disk fail on a RAID-5 set during recovery. (Although > with most commercial controllers it might have been game-over, but as this > was Linux RAID-5, I was able to recover the data with some patience) I'm not a huge fan of what FreeNAS uses for its software RAID (GM? I don't remember what it's called) - I run it in a VMware VM with two 1TB drives passed through. If you did so much as to think about breathing it would break the array and lose all the data. This might be because of VMware, but running the drives separately has been no problem in the same VM. (I wasn't doing it for the speed, mainly to combine the two drives as one volume) Shaun -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html