19norant
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- Dec 15, 2016
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I have some options here and am mulling over how to approach my first build. I would like to do this right from the start and get all drives in place from the get-go.
Drives available:
The main pool will be for a Plex Media Server. Being that it isn't horrible if I lose a movie or TV episode, I am planning to go with RAIDz1 for this pool. I have toyed with the idea of doing this with RAIDz2, but I value usable space over data preservation. So z1 is the plan here.
For the observant of you out there, you may be thinking... "He has 15 bays and 21 drives." Yes... this is a problem I will have to deal with. I think there is enough room in the case (and enough holes) so I can finagle mounting some more drives in there. We'll see. If this obstacle proves too difficult, I may have to scrap the spark_pool and go hardware RAID in my SansDigital tower for that. We'll see if I can overcome the physical limitations.
So that's that. Looking forward to hearing whatever feedback the community has on my first build.
Cheers!
Drives available:
- 6TB x1
- 5TB x1
- 4TB x5
- 3TB x5
- 2TB x8
- 1TB x12
- 750GB x2
- 256gb SSD x1
- 60gb SSD x2
- 16gb USB stick (to boot FreeNAS)
- Rosewill RSV-L4500 (15 bays)
- GA-MA790GP-UD4H (6 SATAII ports)
- AMD Phenom II X6 1045T
- 16GB DDR2
- IO-PCE9705-8I x2 (16 SATAIII ports)
The main pool will be for a Plex Media Server. Being that it isn't horrible if I lose a movie or TV episode, I am planning to go with RAIDz1 for this pool. I have toyed with the idea of doing this with RAIDz2, but I value usable space over data preservation. So z1 is the plan here.
- plex_pool (36tb)
- vdev0: 4tb x5
- vdev1: 3tb x5
- vdev2: 2tb x5
- spark_pool (7tb)
- vdev0: 6tb + 5tb
- vdev1: 2tb + 2tb
For the observant of you out there, you may be thinking... "He has 15 bays and 21 drives." Yes... this is a problem I will have to deal with. I think there is enough room in the case (and enough holes) so I can finagle mounting some more drives in there. We'll see. If this obstacle proves too difficult, I may have to scrap the spark_pool and go hardware RAID in my SansDigital tower for that. We'll see if I can overcome the physical limitations.
So that's that. Looking forward to hearing whatever feedback the community has on my first build.
Cheers!