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English Forums => Hardware and Performance => Topic started by: jsrober on November 21, 2018, 02:52:57 am

Title: Does OPNsense support Intel RAID M.2 SSD's?
Post by: jsrober on November 21, 2018, 02:52:57 am

Hi,

I'm building an ITX PC to run OPNsense. I would like to install dual M.2 SSD's and RAID 1 (mirror) them so that if one fails my OPNsense firewall will continue to work.

Is installing on a RAIDed SSD supported?

Here is the HW I'm planning to use. I welcome any advice on it.

John

Item   Cost   Description
CPU   114.99   Intel Core i3-8100 Coffee Lake Quad-Core 3.6 GHz LGA 1151 (300 Series) 65W BX80684I38100
Motherboard   141.38   ASUS ROG Strix H370-I
RAM   69.99   GeIL SUPER LUCE RGB SYNC 8GB (2 x 4GB) 
M.2   111.98   Intel 760p Series M.2 2280 128GB
Case   47.53   APEX MI Series MI-008

Title: Re: Does OPNsense support Intel RAID M.2 SSD's?
Post by: franco on November 22, 2018, 03:29:13 pm

Hi,

Hardware RAID is no problem in general, just set it up and the installer will see the RAID device.

But the controller must be supported... It normally is but please don't take it for granted without checking hardware compatibility.

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.1R/hardware.html


Cheers,
Franco

Title: Re: Does OPNsense support Intel RAID M.2 SSD's?
Post by: jsrober on November 22, 2018, 08:36:02 pm

Thank you very much for reading my question and giving me advice. I will check the hardware list and I'll post back here to let you know how it works out. THANK YOU!

John

Title: Re: Does OPNsense support Intel RAID M.2 SSD's?
Post by: franco on November 26, 2018, 09:08:20 am

Sorry, I forgot to say that "GMIRROR" can be set up as well, it's a kind of software RAID. The installer will take you through the necessary steps.


Cheers,
Franco