cengjingcaihua
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Coming from the unRAID world, I own a Supermicro X10DRi with dual E5-2680v4 (2x 14 cores) and 256GB ECC DDR4 memory. I have experienced bitrot and file corruptions recently with xfs and decided to move all my data to TrueNAS ZFS. I also have a spare Dell PowerEdge T20 with a Pentium G3220 and 32GB ECC DDR3. I have around 5 TB of family photos, personal documents and software collections plus 2TB plex media content in 6 years. And I don't expect it to double in the next 5 years. I now have 4 drives: 3x 8TB and 1x 14TB. I am planning to use a raidz pool on the 3x 8T and backup data weekly to the 14TB drive on unRAID using rsync. I still want to use unRAID to manage my VMs and dockers.
Here is my thought on the pros. Any advice on whether I should run TrueNAS Core as a VM in unRAID or just bare metal on the T20?
VM:
Here is my thought on the pros. Any advice on whether I should run TrueNAS Core as a VM in unRAID or just bare metal on the T20?
VM:
- I can isolate one CPU so that host/VM/docker cannot use it and pin all 14 cores to TrueNAS and give it 128GB of RAM.
- I have 6x 3.5" and 2x 2.5" drive bays and plenty of PCIe lanes for expandability
- Potentially lower power consumption since I am only runing one host and T20 idles at 50W
- File server stays on even when unRAID is down/off
- Possiblely more reliable than running TrueNAS in a VM?