Ello wonderful people
I have been itching to lower the footprint of my FreeNAS build from a 4u supermicro 3.5 chassis to a 2U 2.5 array. Was wondering on your thoughts around the move, I know in the past 2.5" drives (spinning disks that is) have higher responce times and less reliability. With 2.5" 4TB drives being the same price if not slightly cheaper then the 3.5" drives.
Today my FreeNAS system uses 5x2TB and 5x4TB 3.5 drives in raidz2. I would use the same motherboard setup, xeon-d 1518 board.
Thoughts?
I have been itching to lower the footprint of my FreeNAS build from a 4u supermicro 3.5 chassis to a 2U 2.5 array. Was wondering on your thoughts around the move, I know in the past 2.5" drives (spinning disks that is) have higher responce times and less reliability. With 2.5" 4TB drives being the same price if not slightly cheaper then the 3.5" drives.
Today my FreeNAS system uses 5x2TB and 5x4TB 3.5 drives in raidz2. I would use the same motherboard setup, xeon-d 1518 board.
Thoughts?