BlueMagician
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Dear all,
I'm waiting for the final components to arrive in the post, then I shall be building my first FreeNAS server.
I've Googled until dribbling and read numerous forum posts/articles, and yet I still can't decide if using RAIDz2 for a vDev of 6 x 6TB WD Red drives is 'safe enough'.
All the conflicting opinions on URE and drive failure rates, along with some people swearing by Mirrors rather than any form of parity. It's difficult to know what's best.
If I'd not already invested in an Intel server board, ECC RAM and a Dell H200, I'd probably be calling it quits and just continuing to disk-disk the critical stuff by hand and be done with it.
I desperately want to use FreeNAS as a central store in my home, and also look at running Plex in a jail so media is readily available and well looked after, but the more I read into it, it seems that parity is becoming less and less sensible these days - with drive sizes as they are.
Would it be better to drop to using 4TB drives, or go up to RAIDz3 - although this seems like an incredible 'waste' og good disc space for home use!?
Sense and advice much appreciated, with thanks in advance,
S.
I'm waiting for the final components to arrive in the post, then I shall be building my first FreeNAS server.
I've Googled until dribbling and read numerous forum posts/articles, and yet I still can't decide if using RAIDz2 for a vDev of 6 x 6TB WD Red drives is 'safe enough'.
All the conflicting opinions on URE and drive failure rates, along with some people swearing by Mirrors rather than any form of parity. It's difficult to know what's best.
If I'd not already invested in an Intel server board, ECC RAM and a Dell H200, I'd probably be calling it quits and just continuing to disk-disk the critical stuff by hand and be done with it.
I desperately want to use FreeNAS as a central store in my home, and also look at running Plex in a jail so media is readily available and well looked after, but the more I read into it, it seems that parity is becoming less and less sensible these days - with drive sizes as they are.
Would it be better to drop to using 4TB drives, or go up to RAIDz3 - although this seems like an incredible 'waste' og good disc space for home use!?
Sense and advice much appreciated, with thanks in advance,
S.
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