New to the forums and I'm building a new personal use system, and looking for insight on how to design my new system vdev/pool to work best for my needs of photo/video editing. My current resources are as follows:
4th gen i5-4570 quad core 3.2ghz
Supermicro X10SAE MoBo
4 x 8gb non-ECC MEM-DR380L-HL01-UN16 (waiting on delivery)
LSI 9207-8i HBA + StarTech SFF-8087 adaptor (waiting on delivery)
2 x Crucial BX500 120gb SSD mirrored boot drives (waiting on delivery)
4 x 4TB WD40EFRX drives (waiting on delivery)
2 x 3TB HGST Ultrastar 7200rpm (freebies from datacenter buddy, 46k hrs per SMART, no issues since using 6 mo ago)
2 x 2TB Seagate 5900rpm (35k+ hrs per SMART, no issues so far)
SeaSonic Focus + 750 (waiting on delivery)
Fractal Design Define R6, 4 extra HDD trays
Stock CPU heatsink/cooler, but willing to upgrade/add fans (something I'll closely monitor once system is finally built/powered up)
With a dedicated APC UPS-Smart1500
I've been using FreeNas since the v9 days, but have only been using legacy components on a cheapo build level with a pair of mirrored vdevs for 2 separate pools. I decided enough was enough, and budgeted some time & money for a better build, and been trolling the forums for 9+ months as I designed my system. Many of the components above were purchased because it was previously suggested, and had been verified as workable in ZFS.
Now down to the point of this thread, my NAS is used by myself alone. I've acquired less than 2 TB of storage in my years of use, and it's primarily "RAW" photos from my hobby photography, a few videos i've capture with my DLSR & drone, and a handful of movies that I've purchased. I also use Plex & Unifi jails. My biggest complaint with a pair of mirrored vdev pools in the past was the inability to edit my RAW photos(via Darktable editor or GIMP) & edit video(via different Linux based editors)
With the inflexibility of RaidZ-2 configurations, would a single 8 disk Z-2 pool satisfy the IOPS required for editing or should I look into 2 x 6 disk Z-2 pool instead? I understand that "build & test" is the ideal way to answer my question but delays in shipping of components, disk burn-in time, & testing of memory could put me in the month(s) time-frame before I can really know. And if extra drives(plus extra fans) are needed for 2 x 6 z2 I'd like to get a jump on ordering.
Thanks, and I appreciate any insight.
4th gen i5-4570 quad core 3.2ghz
Supermicro X10SAE MoBo
4 x 8gb non-ECC MEM-DR380L-HL01-UN16 (waiting on delivery)
LSI 9207-8i HBA + StarTech SFF-8087 adaptor (waiting on delivery)
2 x Crucial BX500 120gb SSD mirrored boot drives (waiting on delivery)
4 x 4TB WD40EFRX drives (waiting on delivery)
2 x 3TB HGST Ultrastar 7200rpm (freebies from datacenter buddy, 46k hrs per SMART, no issues since using 6 mo ago)
2 x 2TB Seagate 5900rpm (35k+ hrs per SMART, no issues so far)
SeaSonic Focus + 750 (waiting on delivery)
Fractal Design Define R6, 4 extra HDD trays
Stock CPU heatsink/cooler, but willing to upgrade/add fans (something I'll closely monitor once system is finally built/powered up)
With a dedicated APC UPS-Smart1500
I've been using FreeNas since the v9 days, but have only been using legacy components on a cheapo build level with a pair of mirrored vdevs for 2 separate pools. I decided enough was enough, and budgeted some time & money for a better build, and been trolling the forums for 9+ months as I designed my system. Many of the components above were purchased because it was previously suggested, and had been verified as workable in ZFS.
Now down to the point of this thread, my NAS is used by myself alone. I've acquired less than 2 TB of storage in my years of use, and it's primarily "RAW" photos from my hobby photography, a few videos i've capture with my DLSR & drone, and a handful of movies that I've purchased. I also use Plex & Unifi jails. My biggest complaint with a pair of mirrored vdev pools in the past was the inability to edit my RAW photos(via Darktable editor or GIMP) & edit video(via different Linux based editors)
With the inflexibility of RaidZ-2 configurations, would a single 8 disk Z-2 pool satisfy the IOPS required for editing or should I look into 2 x 6 disk Z-2 pool instead? I understand that "build & test" is the ideal way to answer my question but delays in shipping of components, disk burn-in time, & testing of memory could put me in the month(s) time-frame before I can really know. And if extra drives(plus extra fans) are needed for 2 x 6 z2 I'd like to get a jump on ordering.
Thanks, and I appreciate any insight.