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I'm looking to convert an HP DL360G5 into a FreeNAS box. I have a SmartArray P800 controller and an HP SAS Expander in another shelf of 16 disks. After some reading it looks like I have a few options:
- Use the hardware RAID on the P800, but lose lots of ZFS features (not really a fan of this idea)
- Configure P800 for JBOD mode (not possible as far as I can tell)
- Configure each disk connected (24 disks) as a RAID0 volume in the controller to present each disk to FreeNAS...
HP SmartArray or new HBA?
I'm looking to convert an HP DL360G5 into a FreeNAS box. I have a SmartArray P800 controller and an HP SAS Expander in another shelf of 16 disks. After some reading it looks like I have a few options:
- Use the hardware RAID on the P800, but lose lots of ZFS features (not really a fan of this idea)
- Configure P800 for JBOD mode (not possible as far as I can tell)
- Configure each disk connected (24 disks) as a RAID0 volume in the controller to present each disk to FreeNAS...
HP SmartArray or new HBA?