Cold71 Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 To keep this short and sweet, I'd like to setup external storage in another spare box I have with something like FreeNAS. Does anyone know if it's possible to add this external storage to the datapool in DrivePool? Thanks in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 At the moment, no it wouldn't be possible. The best way that *may* work, would b iSCSI, and I am not sure if DrivePool will play nice with it. I'd have to test it to confirm or deny that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Cold71 Posted November 21, 2013 Author Share Posted November 21, 2013 At the moment, no it wouldn't be possible. The best way that *may* work, would b iSCSI, and I am not sure if DrivePool will play nice with it. I'd have to test it to confirm or deny that. Thanks, let me know if you find the time to look in to it. I just got a new server with a decent amount of resources but not a lot of hdd bays. I'd like to move over to ESXi and virtualize my current home server. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 Well, actually, I think ESXi may actually support using iSCSI volumes. So you *may* be able to use them for VMs. I'm not as familiar with ESX, as I primarily use HyperV, but I think this may be what you're looking for: http://www.vladan.fr/how-to-configure-esxi-5-for-iscsi-connection-to-drobo/ (for drobo, but the principle should apply) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 PJShots Posted November 26, 2013 Share Posted November 26, 2013 Just to say that I use DrivePool with a QNAP TS-212 with 2 1TB drives as separate iSCSI targets and it works fine. Although it doesnt seem to handle SMART data (QNAP will though), throughput is good and pool features such as balancing work well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 PJShots, Thanks for the feedback! And that's good to know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 l.washington@shaw.ca Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 Hi, would an external hard drive four bay enclosure connected with USB work with the pooling? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 dbailey75 Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 Hi, would an external hard drive four bay enclosure connected with USB work with the pooling? yes, but can you do esata? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 Absolutely. Here is no problem with doing that. And I know that at least a few people definitely do that. But as dbailey has pointed out, it's better to do eSATA. The reason is that USB can be flaky, and drop the disks under heavy load sometimes. Depending on the USB controller. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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To keep this short and sweet, I'd like to setup external storage in another spare box I have with something like FreeNAS. Does anyone know if it's possible to add this external storage to the datapool in DrivePool? Thanks in advance.
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