First off, the context. I am in a home environment with no real time-critical applications. I use things like Plex, Sickbeard, CouchPotato, etc. I do have some sensitive and critical information, but I think i've already figured out a backup plan for that information for the future.
So i'm thinking about building my first official NAS box. I currently run an Ubuntu box, CLI only, with things like Samba, SB, CP, Plex, etc on it. It has around 10TB of usable space at the moment. None of it has any backups, nor is it raided in any way.
So now i'm at a turning point, and i'm not 100% convinced, but enough that I think i'm going to move forward anyway. I'm here just for thoughts in general.
The box itself contains a Gigabyte GA-870A-UD3 motherboard. I'm not sure on the revision, but from multiple places on the nets they say this board supports ECC, as does the processor i've already got installed. Nice! However I currently am running generic DDR3 with only 4GB, so I ordered 16GB of ECC memory. It was rather spendy.. but from everything I've read it's the only way to go.. However... My board has 6 SATA ports, and I'm still not convinced just using RAID5 isn't as good as ZFS RaidZ1. Thoughts?
Also, i'm using WD Caviar Greens, and this forum is the first i've read that said I should go to Reds? Is that necessary? What are peoples personal opinions on the matter?
Lastly, how many of you go with RaidZ2 instead of 1? I really can't decide... My thoughts are i'll go with RaidZ1 for now, and when 4TB+ Reds go on sale i'll buy a bunch and move to RaidZ2 at that point.
Overall thoughts? I really just need to be sure i'm not going down the wrong path here! Thanks!
So i'm thinking about building my first official NAS box. I currently run an Ubuntu box, CLI only, with things like Samba, SB, CP, Plex, etc on it. It has around 10TB of usable space at the moment. None of it has any backups, nor is it raided in any way.
So now i'm at a turning point, and i'm not 100% convinced, but enough that I think i'm going to move forward anyway. I'm here just for thoughts in general.
The box itself contains a Gigabyte GA-870A-UD3 motherboard. I'm not sure on the revision, but from multiple places on the nets they say this board supports ECC, as does the processor i've already got installed. Nice! However I currently am running generic DDR3 with only 4GB, so I ordered 16GB of ECC memory. It was rather spendy.. but from everything I've read it's the only way to go.. However... My board has 6 SATA ports, and I'm still not convinced just using RAID5 isn't as good as ZFS RaidZ1. Thoughts?
Also, i'm using WD Caviar Greens, and this forum is the first i've read that said I should go to Reds? Is that necessary? What are peoples personal opinions on the matter?
Lastly, how many of you go with RaidZ2 instead of 1? I really can't decide... My thoughts are i'll go with RaidZ1 for now, and when 4TB+ Reds go on sale i'll buy a bunch and move to RaidZ2 at that point.
Overall thoughts? I really just need to be sure i'm not going down the wrong path here! Thanks!