DATASET LAYOUT Advices for last Bluefin release

[Sofism]

Hello,

I'm Sofiane and I'm almost new with the forum, and from few weeks trying to start but blocked, So I would like to have some advice if possible.

I started from scratch :

I have mounted the below config :

Mother Board : Asus ROG STRIX B550-F Gaming
Processor : AMD 5600G
RAM : 64GB = 2 x Crucial 32GB DDR4 3200 CL22 (not ECC but plan to upgrade them)
HDD : 4 x HDD : Toshiba 3.5 N300 8To
USB : 2 x Samsung FIT Plus 64 GB Type-A 300 MB/s USB 3.1 Flash (as boot pool)
SSD NVMe : 2x Crucial P3 1TB PCIe Gen3

So I have installed from scratch Truenas Scale 22.12.2 with Admin account. And today updated to the last release 22.12.3.1 :
with the below config but I don't know if it's the best if not maybe you can advice me please for a long term use.

2 USB 64GB in mirror for the boot (not recommanded I think)
4 HDD : ZFS2 called "default" as read in a topic
2 Nvme : mirror for "software" pool

So According my hardware how I can manage the pool and dataset.
In the past I had a synology and it was more easy for me to used but I really want to use truenas as a challenge but to be honest not easy for me comparing DSM.

My maingoal is to have a home server as I had with synologie :

Plan to use nextcloud to synchronise data from different clients (other users) but those data can be used by another app as Jellyfin and also I need to be able to transfert those data to another dataset that I can (admin) manage localy? Feel free to share some Dataset Layout it will be very nice.

So hope you will find few minutes to support me...
Many thanks.
Sofiane

 

[NickF]

I would make two pools, but I have no idea what your goals are exactly.

SSD NVMe : 2x Crucial P3 1TB PCIe Gen3

I would make these into a mirror vdev pool. There you can install your applications and any virtual machines you may want to use.

HDD : 4 x HDD : Toshiba 3.5 N300 8To

I would make these into a RAIDZ-1 pool. There you can store all of your files.