I'm just building my 1st home NAS and planning to use TrueNAS.
My build:
OS will be ESXi 7.0, TrueNAS will run on a VM out of the M.2 disk.
Another VM will run Plex server on M.2
Another VM will run SQL server on M.2
NOTE THIS BOARD HAS 2x 10GBe INTERFACES WHICH I'M PLANNING TO USE
Planning on using 8 HDD drives only for music, movies and files, so just NAS purpose no VM's, don't know how will I distribute the drives yet that's why I would like to ask here. Based on what I read on the post there are several options.
My current storage requirements are around 10 - 12 TB
Not planning to use ZIL or L2ARC at the moment unless the performance over 10 GBe is limited (which I'm kind of forecasting will happen after reading these excellent posts on this site).
Would love to hear your comments or recommendations regarding my build and especially which ZFS pool to use. Thank you in advance
My build:
- Node 804 with stock 2x120mm and 1x140mm fans
- Ryzen 3700X with Noctua NH-U12S SE-AM4
- Asrock X570D4U-2L2T with added Noctua NF-A4x20 PWM for the X570
- Superflower 850W Leadex III 80 Plus Gold
- 64 Gb ECC RAM
- 1x Samsung 960 PRO M.2 1TB
- HBA Avago LSI 9400-8i
- 4x WD40EZRX 4TB Green (coming from another NAS which was used for about 2 - 3 years)
- 1x 12TB HGST (HUH721212ALE600)
- 2x 6TB HGST (HDN726060ALE610)
- 2x 4TB HGST (HDN724040ALE640)
- 4x 4TB DELL (ST4000NM0033) (Seagate rebranded) (if I can avoid using these it would be great, I have these on a Dell 720 which not used now but would like to use it in the future perhaps)
OS will be ESXi 7.0, TrueNAS will run on a VM out of the M.2 disk.
Another VM will run Plex server on M.2
Another VM will run SQL server on M.2
NOTE THIS BOARD HAS 2x 10GBe INTERFACES WHICH I'M PLANNING TO USE
Planning on using 8 HDD drives only for music, movies and files, so just NAS purpose no VM's, don't know how will I distribute the drives yet that's why I would like to ask here. Based on what I read on the post there are several options.
My current storage requirements are around 10 - 12 TB
- I can use just one VDEV and ZFS pool with 8x 4TB drives in RAIDZ2 totaling 24 TB, this will be slow, although for NAS could be ok, still if I want to increase size or performance I will be limited in the future so I'm not sure about this.
- I can created 2 RAIDZ2 VDEVs with 4 drives each providing 4x 4TB and 4x4TB totaling 16 TB of usable space, this will be a little faster and with options to more easily increase one VDEV on size in the future with larger drives but not so sure about it either.
- There is an option of using mirrored VDEV with 2 drives each, this seems to me the most logical case it will be 4 VDEVs each of 2x 4TB providing 12 TB total, I can also use the 2x 6TB on one of the VDEVS giving me 14 TB total, if I need to increase space I just need to purchase 2 drives of larger size and upgrade one of the VDEVs, possibly the mirroring set will provide more performance
- A final option would be purchasing 4x 8TB WD RED PLUS drives which is $800 or so and could provide some extra storage but at this point I don't think I need it.
Not planning to use ZIL or L2ARC at the moment unless the performance over 10 GBe is limited (which I'm kind of forecasting will happen after reading these excellent posts on this site).
Would love to hear your comments or recommendations regarding my build and especially which ZFS pool to use. Thank you in advance