Any hp micro server users know if wd red 3tb drives work with freenas

[G+_Adam EL-Idrissi]

Any hp micro server users know if wd red 3tb drives work with freenas ? There was a site that had them listed but said they were buggy with esxi. 2tb reds worked fine and I planned on buying 4 but new egg has a deal on 3tb reds for 110. Also if I were to use a raid enclosure and esata with the n40l and freenas,does it matter if the subsystem is jbod or raid 0-10 supported?

[G+_Travis Hershberger]

The micro servers don't have a RAID card on-board that works with ESXi, so I doubt the problem was actually the drives.  Going with an esata system with it, it would depend on the esata controller and expander used.

 

You CAN get it to work with some extra fiddling.  With ESXi installed to a USB stick, you just give a VM raw access to the drives.  I'd recommend your favorite Linux distro using software RAID and LVM if you go this way.  BSD/FreeNAS with ZFS is good as well, but will use a lot more system memory that you're more limited on with a micro server.

[G+_Adam EL-Idrissi]

Travis Hershberger according to this site, 3tb reds have ussues with esxi(http://n40l.wikia.com/wiki/Hard_drives). I'm currently running freenas on it with 8gb(might go to 16) I was just referencing the esxi thing in case in general 3tb drives had issues with the micro server. I was looking at the SANS DIGITAL TowerRAID (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=16-111-455).

[G+_Travis Hershberger]

Adam EL-Idrissi Yes, that's why I recommended not bothering trying to run them with ESXi natively.  It's more extra steps, and you have to make sure the boot order of the virtual machines is correct.  Basically run all the drives in pass through mode to a tiny Linux VM and then share the storage back to ESXi via NFS.  I know it's some extra hoops to jump through, but it does work.