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I am currently doing research and preparing a shopping list for my first NAS build and I would like to get some feedback before I pull the trigger.
I watched a lot of videos and read some articles about ZFS and TrueNAS including the SCALE Hardware Guide and the Community Hardware Guide to identify the components below, but there are still a few details to iron out.
Let me start with my use cases.
1) I plan to upgrade my homelab with two Proxmox servers and build a Kubernetes Cluster. Those VMs and Containers need some place for storage since the servers themselves are too small (I use mini PCs). Also I would like to offload and backup data from my main PC.
2) My Dad has about 10TB of photo and video footage which is currently spread across several external drives.
I want to build two separate systems, the first one at my house serving my homelab and as a leaning experience, and the second one for my dad. Also I plan to use each system as the off-site backup for the other.
Here are the parts I selected so far.
Motherboard: Supermicro MBD-X11SCH-F-O
CPU: Intel Core i3-8300
RAM: 32GB (2 * 16GB Kingston Server Premier ECC DDR4 2666)
Storage: 4 * Seagate Exos 12TB as a Raidz1
Case and PSU: I have an old PC case with a 350W PSU which I plan on using for now to save some cost. Eventually I was thinking about the U-NAS NSC-810A
And here are my questions:
A) For the OS I was thinking to get two M.2 NVMes, but since I do not need much space for it, should I partition them and create separate mirror vdevs with those partitions (one partition from each NVMe), putting the OS on one, a SLOG on another?
B) Do I even need a SLOG? And how big?
C) What about a L2ARC? Maybe on a third vdev on those NVMes? And what size?
D) What do you think about those components?
E) Is there anything else I am forgetting?
Thanks in advance.
Carsten
I am currently doing research and preparing a shopping list for my first NAS build and I would like to get some feedback before I pull the trigger.
I watched a lot of videos and read some articles about ZFS and TrueNAS including the SCALE Hardware Guide and the Community Hardware Guide to identify the components below, but there are still a few details to iron out.
Let me start with my use cases.
1) I plan to upgrade my homelab with two Proxmox servers and build a Kubernetes Cluster. Those VMs and Containers need some place for storage since the servers themselves are too small (I use mini PCs). Also I would like to offload and backup data from my main PC.
2) My Dad has about 10TB of photo and video footage which is currently spread across several external drives.
I want to build two separate systems, the first one at my house serving my homelab and as a leaning experience, and the second one for my dad. Also I plan to use each system as the off-site backup for the other.
Here are the parts I selected so far.
Motherboard: Supermicro MBD-X11SCH-F-O
CPU: Intel Core i3-8300
RAM: 32GB (2 * 16GB Kingston Server Premier ECC DDR4 2666)
Storage: 4 * Seagate Exos 12TB as a Raidz1
Case and PSU: I have an old PC case with a 350W PSU which I plan on using for now to save some cost. Eventually I was thinking about the U-NAS NSC-810A
And here are my questions:
A) For the OS I was thinking to get two M.2 NVMes, but since I do not need much space for it, should I partition them and create separate mirror vdevs with those partitions (one partition from each NVMe), putting the OS on one, a SLOG on another?
B) Do I even need a SLOG? And how big?
C) What about a L2ARC? Maybe on a third vdev on those NVMes? And what size?
D) What do you think about those components?
E) Is there anything else I am forgetting?
Thanks in advance.
Carsten