dbsoundman
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- Feb 20, 2021
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Hi all, I just recently purchased a used FreeNAS Mini with 4x 4TB HDDs, as well as the optional L2ARC and ZIL SSDs installed. In my particular case, I chose to create two striped VDEVs and then mirror the two VDEVs (basically RAID10) as it was more practical for my usage, so now I have some extra SSD storage and I'm not quite sure what to do with it.
My first question: what is ada2? It looks like it might be the disk the OS would be installed on but I'm not sure.
Second question: how should I arrange ada3 and ada4? I wish they were the same size, then I would just create a striped VDEV and use them for VM/Jail/Plugin storage, but alas they are not, and I don't really want to waste 50GB on ada3 by striping it with the smaller ada4.
I'd appreciate your suggestions, TrueNAS is new and exciting for me; I just wanted to get a better NAS, and what I got far exceeds my expectations, so much that I'm not 100% sure what I'm doing to do with it all just yet!
My first question: what is ada2? It looks like it might be the disk the OS would be installed on but I'm not sure.
Second question: how should I arrange ada3 and ada4? I wish they were the same size, then I would just create a striped VDEV and use them for VM/Jail/Plugin storage, but alas they are not, and I don't really want to waste 50GB on ada3 by striping it with the smaller ada4.
I'd appreciate your suggestions, TrueNAS is new and exciting for me; I just wanted to get a better NAS, and what I got far exceeds my expectations, so much that I'm not 100% sure what I'm doing to do with it all just yet!