Very new to self hosting and truenas.
Got an old dell with 6x4tb of storage. Turns out they are all SAS drives and turns out hardware raid is the old thing now. Knowing none of this before what can I do with SAS drives connecting to my raid card (in photo) knowing that this is just a home NAS, SAS drives are more expensive and better to just go SATA.
What do you think?
Get a pcie to data, sell all the SAS drives and save up for 6x4tb of Seagate data drives?
What would you do with a dell server with old SAS drives if the end goal was a dependable home NAS for important home files?
I’m new to this so any input helps, thanks!
You’ve already got it, why not use it? There’s nothing wrong with it. Hardware raid is fine, and sas drives are usually cheaper, actually, because not as many people want them.
It shows up in try has as one big 18TB drive (I have 24tb, so raid is working).
How do I configure that? Just put it in one pool? In truenas terms what do I do with the 18tb?
Oh, if you want to run truenas, then replace the controller with a 9211-8i or similar, and put it in IT mode so that truenas can see the raw disks.
You can tell truenas to use it as one big pool, and it’ll work fine, but you’ll lose the native disk health monitoring (I assume truenas has some, I’ve never used it).