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FreeNAS Hardware RAID5 controller

I want to setup a FreeNAS server with 4 Samsung 1.5Tb hard drives. The (Dell) Adaptec 2610SA 6 port SATA Raid Controller Card that I have does not seem to like drives over 1Tb so I need another.

Does anyone have any suggestions for a 4, 5 or 6 port SATA RAID controller that IS compatible with FreeNAS and is also reasonable in price. Storage space is the requirement, not speed.

Or, can the RAID control I have be updated with firmware to support 1.5Tb drives?

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BigSchmuh

RAID 5 ? I hope this is not for any dosage of random write usages (apart for Archive, Backup, WriteOnceReadMany usages that are good opportunity for parity RAID)

I although hope those HDD are "Enterprise class" Samsung with a UBE of 1 unreadable sector per 10e15bits read...otherwise, you have :
-a 13% probability of a failure at rebuild time
-a very high probability of a "disk disconnect" at the very first error recovery process lasting for more than 8 seconds (RAID capable drives has a CCTL / TLER feature to timeout in 7 seconds max)

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Qlemo

This question has been classified as abandoned and is being closed as part of the Cleanup Program. See my comment at the end of the question for more details.