Want to setup what I think is a NAS*HELP*

**Detale** · 02-24-2010, 04:17 AM

Ok guys i went with this one
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16815124020
I know it's only SATA I but it's 66Mhz as I understand it it's better to have 66Mhz than STAII in my case. Hope it's true.

**Artemis** · 02-24-2010, 11:52 AM

On the balance of probabilities, given the overall specs of this system, going for a 64bit PCI controller was the better choice. In terms of overall throughput for the system this will provide a fast data transfer. The Syba 4P uses the SiL 3114 chipset which I have always found to be very reliable, and the huge plus for you is that you can run multiple cards (which is where the real advantages of 64bit PCI kick in).
You can use SATAII drives on a SATA controller, the drives will simply step down to SATA I throughput, so there are no compatibility problems to be concerned with.

**Detale** · 02-26-2010, 01:11 AM

What kind of data transfer rates am I to be looking at do you think?

Another question I thought of. I currently have a TB drive filled with movies. Can I just plug in and share or will I have to tranfer all the files or wht?

**Detale** · 03-01-2010, 02:21 AM

Yet another question, what are these green slots called are they PCI or PCI-X?

I want to try and get a SATA controller for those as well. I think the one I ordered will only fit in the regular PCI slot (white) one in the pic.

**lee551** · 03-01-2010, 10:06 AM

Originally Posted by Detale

Another question I thought of. I currently have a TB drive filled with movies. Can I just plug in and share or will I have to tranfer all the files or wht?

You can add pre-formatted drives no problem. This page has FreeNAS supported file systems.

I'd assume the TB movie drive is NTFS, so:

NTFS – Originally found on Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista. Writing on NTFS can give you unexpected results(data lost). You can’t format(create a new NTFS partition) and run fsck(file system check) on FreeNAS.
From version 0.684b, FreeNAS will fully support read+write on NTFS volumes. However FreeNAS can’t format and fsck an NTFS volume.

My drives are UFS formatted, but that's just because I started with older versions.

**Detale** · 03-01-2010, 11:11 PM

Thanks so much Lee

Any idea about them green slots at all?

**Pozarynicoeta** · 03-02-2010, 05:09 AM

Originally Posted by Detale

Thanks so much Lee

Any idea about them green slots at all?

The screen is PCI-E, the white is PCI.

Also I use Ubuntu 9.10 Server for my nas. Works great with Samba sharing. Little more flexible than freenas.

EDIT: Regarding http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16815124020 stay away from software raid cards.
They will be bundled with a CD that you have to configure with your OS before it can see the Raid drive. There are dozens of problems with these over true hardware raids, just google it.

You can get proper hardware raids on ebay for under $90.

**Artemis** · 03-02-2010, 09:42 AM

The four green slots on the motherboard are PCI, NOT PCI-e slots. They are 64bit PCI slots. The bonus for you is that 64bit PCI is backwards compatible to 32bit. In other words you can put a 32bit PCI card into a 64bit slot, it wll just run @ 32bit bus bandwidth. The 64 bit cards are usually for advanced server cards i.e. Hardware RAID with onboard caching, SNMP management and remote access/failover reporting.
There is another version of 64bit PCI called PCI-X or eXtended PCI but these are specialised server cards, and the 600SC does not support PCI-X anyway (I just mentioned PCI-X to cover all the bases).PCI-X is based on 64bit PCI architecture however.
A simple test, simply align any standard 32bit PCI card with the green slots, you will see that the PCI card's connectors line up with the first two connector blocks on the green slot but not the last connector block, so your new card could be installed into one of the 64bit slots with ease.

**Detale** · 03-02-2010, 12:29 PM

Thanks Art. I can't seem to find any 64 bit PCI cards for those slots. I want to get some more raid cards, any ideas? Newegg doesn't seem to have any I can find.