Aephir
Dabbler
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- Apr 25, 2021
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Hi,
I'm going to build my first TrueNAS machine primarily using my old gaming rig that was collecting dust in the garage.
I've read around quite a bit, but they just made me more unsure. Mostly about the best use of SSDs. I'm sure i don't want to use a USB stick to boot from, but not sure about using two small SSD in RAID1 for boot, using SSD for buffering, caching, etc.
The use case is a bit varied, mostly backup and a bit of Nextcloud (again, mostly backup, but probably a few documents that will be worked on, as well as photos that'll be viewed from phone app). I expect fairly light use from 2-3 users, at least initially. I might throw some VMs on (running on an old IBM server), depending on how well that would run (don't really know what to expect, do I'll just try and see how it works. And yes, I'll probably build a better rig if it turns out I really want to use this properly in the future). Most of the storage will probably be mounted as NFS shares to that server.
Hardware:
Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD5-B3
i7 2600k
RAM: 2x8 GB corsair dominator DDR3 (1866MHz)
Dell H310
3x 4 TB WD RED (WD40EFRX) + 3x 4 TB HGST (HDS724040ALE640) - probably leaving one out from initial build to swap if one dies. I was planning to run RAIDZ1.
On top of that i have a RocketRaid 2320 and 2 x 60 GB SSD (which i would, potentially, use for RAID1 booting OS?), as well as 1 x 120 GB and 1 x 240 GB SSD (all sata 6Gb/s) that could be used for anything. I also have 5 x 512 GB SSD, but of questionable quality (old laptop drives, various models).
The main question is, what's the best use of (some of) the SSDs? Logs, cache, anything else? Would any of that require redundancy? Also, would it be more sensible to just use a single SSD for boot, and reinstall if it dies? I'm not insanely worried about downtime, as long as I can fix it in an hour or so (it will be placed in my basement at home). It sounds nice to me to have the RAID1 redundancy for the OS, but i don't know TrueNAS well enough (and couldn't find a consensus in the forum threads i read) to know if it makes sense, or only sounds nice in my head before actually doing it.
And if course, if you see something else that looks stupid, please let me know
I'm going to build my first TrueNAS machine primarily using my old gaming rig that was collecting dust in the garage.
I've read around quite a bit, but they just made me more unsure. Mostly about the best use of SSDs. I'm sure i don't want to use a USB stick to boot from, but not sure about using two small SSD in RAID1 for boot, using SSD for buffering, caching, etc.
The use case is a bit varied, mostly backup and a bit of Nextcloud (again, mostly backup, but probably a few documents that will be worked on, as well as photos that'll be viewed from phone app). I expect fairly light use from 2-3 users, at least initially. I might throw some VMs on (running on an old IBM server), depending on how well that would run (don't really know what to expect, do I'll just try and see how it works. And yes, I'll probably build a better rig if it turns out I really want to use this properly in the future). Most of the storage will probably be mounted as NFS shares to that server.
Hardware:
Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD5-B3
i7 2600k
RAM: 2x8 GB corsair dominator DDR3 (1866MHz)
Dell H310
3x 4 TB WD RED (WD40EFRX) + 3x 4 TB HGST (HDS724040ALE640) - probably leaving one out from initial build to swap if one dies. I was planning to run RAIDZ1.
On top of that i have a RocketRaid 2320 and 2 x 60 GB SSD (which i would, potentially, use for RAID1 booting OS?), as well as 1 x 120 GB and 1 x 240 GB SSD (all sata 6Gb/s) that could be used for anything. I also have 5 x 512 GB SSD, but of questionable quality (old laptop drives, various models).
The main question is, what's the best use of (some of) the SSDs? Logs, cache, anything else? Would any of that require redundancy? Also, would it be more sensible to just use a single SSD for boot, and reinstall if it dies? I'm not insanely worried about downtime, as long as I can fix it in an hour or so (it will be placed in my basement at home). It sounds nice to me to have the RAID1 redundancy for the OS, but i don't know TrueNAS well enough (and couldn't find a consensus in the forum threads i read) to know if it makes sense, or only sounds nice in my head before actually doing it.
And if course, if you see something else that looks stupid, please let me know