I am coming from FlexRAID, how should I setup my storage?

[krodami]

I have a mix of 4TB and 8TB drives, I am looking for some recommendations as to how I should implement the disks.

I have 6 8TB drives and 8 4TB drives. (~28TB free space combined between them)

The majority of storage is of movies and tv shows, but also store some music, home photos and videos.

I am coming from FlexRAID which I didn't have to worry so much about drive sizes as it would handle mixed volumes. It seems this is not recommended for FreeNAS even if it is technically possible? I would love to know why this is in more details.


Any help/recommendations is appreciated, thank you!

 

[nightshade00013]

https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/updated-forum-rules-4-11-17.45124/

Hardware information is extremely important when diagnosing problems. This includes:

• motherboard make and model
• CPU make and model
• RAM quantity
• hard drives, quantity, model numbers, and RAID configuration
• hard disk controllers
• network cards

 

[krodami]

https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/updated-forum-rules-4-11-17.45124/

Hardware information is extremely important when diagnosing problems. This includes:

• motherboard make and model
• CPU make and model
• RAM quantity
• hard drives, quantity, model numbers, and RAID configuration
• hard disk controllers
• network cards

I was not asking to diagnose a problem but here is the info anyways...

MB - ASRock H110M-ITX
CPU - i5-4690k
RAM - 1 DIMM 8GB
HDD - 8 x Seagate 4TB ST4000
HDD - 6 x Seagate 8TB ST8000
HBA - SuperMicro AOC-SASLP-MV8
NIC - Intel NIC onboard

 

[Johnnie Black]

HBA - SuperMicro AOC-SASLP-MV8

This HBA is not supported by FreeNAS

 

[krodami]

This HBA is not supported by FreeNAS

What about the SuperMicro AOC-SAS2LP-MV8?

 

[Johnnie Black]

AOC-SAS2LP-MV8?

Same, they use the same driver, at least they do on Linux.

 

[wblock]

What you don't really say about storage is what degree of redundancy is desired. With those drives, I would create a RAIDZ2 of each set of same-sized disks. That would give 24T of raw capacity for the 4TB disks and 32TB for the 8TB disks, a bit less than that usable. But it has decent redundancy.

 

[garm]

Given your statement of 28 TB “free” I assume you already have data on your disks. You will have to “reformat” your drives to use ZFS and read back your stuff from backup. Just sayin’