Recent content by DigitalDaz

Thanks, I will probably use napp-it anyway if I go for ZFS solution

I'm very much leaning toward the ZFS solution, the one problem i have had though and thats when using M1015s is I cannot get it to light up the bad drive, ie, its difficult to identify failed drives.

Its datacenter, not home use. I did have a dig around for the checksumming that I though may be on the Equallogic but I cannot find it either.

No problem, I never considered the age of the initial post.

I cannot understand why you would want to run FreeNAS on Proxmox. Proxmox can use ZFS natively so why bother with the FreeNAS?

Performance, so speed really.

I'm going to be using some shared storage for 3 x Proxmox boxes, 2xE5-2650 192GB RAM each. I have a Dell Equallogic PS6000E with 16 x 1TB SATA or I can have a homebrew ZFS box with E3-1245v2 32GB RAM 8x2TB SATA and a STEC slog device. Which would you go for?

Any chance of the exact model of Hitachi please, its will be good to add to our list of know working drives.

I have used these in HP microservers for SSDs, they have worked just fine for a few years now. https://www.amazon.co.uk/NewerTechnology-2-5-3-5-Inch-Adapter-Drive/dp/B005PZDVF6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1489316763&sr=8-1&keywords=adaptadrive

I just want to add that as far as I can tell, putting a PS6000 controller into a PS4000 seems to work just fine. In fact the GUI now shows the PS4000 as a type PS6000

I'll be putting them back in a 6000 chassis but just upgraded both type 7 controllers to 8.1.6 in the 4000 from 7.x.x

Absolutely it can take a Type 7, in fact the GUI now shows it as a PS6000 series rather than a PS4000 series. It seems to be working abolutely fine, no problems whatsover.

Any of the software related to the model you showed was dated 2009 at the latest, the site is gone now anyway. Excellent try though :)

Sorry, I have only just seen this, my disks are just plain Seagate. My next experiment which I now have the hardware for, just haven't time to try, is to put type 7 PS6000 controllers into a PS4000.

Thanks for that, I'll know definitely in a couple of days, I should have asked the question before I ordered the controllers. At the end of the day they won't be wasted, I have a PS6000E too anyway. The connections definitely look the same. I'll keep my fingers crossed though. I have a Dell...