From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 19 20:00:46 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84BE716A4EA for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 20:00:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jimfreeze@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.179]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60CE343D62 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 20:00:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jimfreeze@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id b29so495580pya for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 13:00:42 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:x-google-sender-auth; b=mZLxR1e7vJLnE41pUjnv3UymHutWcV9y/rmglGomNl4fsO4EhafPGd+xHcfzR3DgFTAzMiCm/a9fSEqEsipx36zZIsY1urV9LhZ2Nqmd+o31PzD+QlVBVSzU1kp/OPrRiz+KHf/BhD5DM1ZugnZAIlbplvq31bbcbxNCRA9cwTI= Received: by 10.35.78.9 with SMTP id f9mr1639227pyl; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 13:00:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.63.12 with HTTP; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 13:00:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5cd596d60607191300g59b57835q412e59c2129434d2@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 15:00:42 -0500 From: "Jim Freeze" Sender: jimfreeze@gmail.com To: questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Google-Sender-Auth: 5b9217b7465a8fd2 Cc: Subject: Need advice on Raid and FreeNas X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 20:00:46 -0000 Hi I am setting up a file server for a small office (10 computers). My first attempt at this I used FreeNas. It was easy to setup and I like that the system is dedicated. One downside of this method is that the write times are slower than I expected. I am using SATA2 drives w/ 8MB buffer on a 100MB network, but the write times I was getting was about 2.5GB per hour. I expected 5 GB in ten minutes. The mother board I am using has a built in raid controller, but I have never read about anyone having warm fuzzies using a built in raid card. I assume I could use a hardware raid with FreeNas and have it setup the CIFS and NFS systems. It is also nice to be able to boot from a USB drive. Another downside is that it is not easy to build and install scripts onto a FreeNas system. Can someone tell me if I am heading down the wrong path using FreeNas? Should I just use a hardware raid and install FBSD so I have access to the ports and and configure samba and nfs manually? I could probably work around the script issue if I could figure out how to get a fast raid with FreeNas, since I like the simplicity and the fact that I can upgrade the system very easily. Thanks for any input. -- Jim Freeze