Hi all,
A bit of a weird one, I'm not sure if TruNas is over the top.
I have 60TB of media, accessed by an dedicated physical Emby server running on Ubuntu. My existing solution is multiple servers offering SMB shares. I'm experiencing disk performace bottlenecks, but it doesn't suprise me as it just a set of JBOD arrays per server, so I'm looking at a Dell T340 with 8x 8TB disks in the bays, and using the 3 bays above (DVD etc) for expansion.
I'll use a PCI-e card and NVME to boot from.
I have a totally seperate solution for backing up, it runs like a dog, but it works fine, so I don't need any resiliance in my main storage solution. So I was thinking about a raid 0 array for speed. If it fails, I can live with the downtime, and the 4 days it takes to copy the data back !
The Emby server has about 5-10 simultaneous users.
I've read the note about flashing the controller here https://www.truenas.com/community/threads/dell-t340-h330-flashing.92183/ so that's one step I need to do.
I've setup TrueNas for my hoome business San, and am very impressed with it, but I'm concerned about the memory I would need for this, as I read it's 1GB per TB, so I'm looking a 64 GB, very expensive.
I was also thinking of adding a 10 GB network card to both the EMby and TruNas boxes and simply cabling them directly.
What guidance could you offer me.
Thanks and have a giid day as they say
Julian
A bit of a weird one, I'm not sure if TruNas is over the top.
I have 60TB of media, accessed by an dedicated physical Emby server running on Ubuntu. My existing solution is multiple servers offering SMB shares. I'm experiencing disk performace bottlenecks, but it doesn't suprise me as it just a set of JBOD arrays per server, so I'm looking at a Dell T340 with 8x 8TB disks in the bays, and using the 3 bays above (DVD etc) for expansion.
I'll use a PCI-e card and NVME to boot from.
I have a totally seperate solution for backing up, it runs like a dog, but it works fine, so I don't need any resiliance in my main storage solution. So I was thinking about a raid 0 array for speed. If it fails, I can live with the downtime, and the 4 days it takes to copy the data back !
The Emby server has about 5-10 simultaneous users.
I've read the note about flashing the controller here https://www.truenas.com/community/threads/dell-t340-h330-flashing.92183/ so that's one step I need to do.
I've setup TrueNas for my hoome business San, and am very impressed with it, but I'm concerned about the memory I would need for this, as I read it's 1GB per TB, so I'm looking a 64 GB, very expensive.
I was also thinking of adding a 10 GB network card to both the EMby and TruNas boxes and simply cabling them directly.
What guidance could you offer me.
Thanks and have a giid day as they say
Julian