Stardenver
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Hello community
Decided to turn my Windows gaming computer (Ryzen 5 2600, 32GB RAM, Sapphire RX590 Nitro+) into a homeserver and it looks like FreeNAS is perfect for this. I started to read the docs and watched some videos. Well.. it was so much information that now I feel totally lost. I hope to get some answers, even they may be out there in the documentation. I am just lost a bit.
Because my computer was a former gaming pc, I bought several drives of different sizes and it seems like this may be of a problem. I'd move data so some of them are empty now, while some others contain all the movies and files I want to keep. 5 of them are WDs with 4 TB (3 more or less filled and 2 empty ones).
My plan was to build a pool with parity using 2 of them (the empty ones). I would then move the files from the other 3 (NTFS) into the pool. After this I would like to add those - now empty - drives to the pool as well (2 of them).
1st question: is this possible? Can I start with 2 drives of the same kind and size and mount the others to move my data?
I read, that I can't expand a pool with additional drives, but create a second pool. So there will be like 2 drives/folders then, made of 4 HDD? Or is it possible to make those 2 pools appear as one big drive?
And my question #3: I do have 1x 1 TB, 1x 2 TB and 1x 3 TB (plus the 4 TB that is left). Any chance to use them, even they are of different sizes? Is it possible to pool the 3 TB and use the combined 1+2 TB for parity/raid? Or the 4 TB together with 3TB+2TB? I don't like the idea of losing 10 TB, just because those drives have different sizes. Any chance?
Question #4: I do have one NVMe SSD for the OS and 2 SATA SSD (Crucial MX500 250 GB and Samsung 860 EVO 250GB). Can they be used for something? Maybe some sort of fast caching or something?
Thanks a lot and sorry for my english - not a native speaker.
Best,
Stardenver
Decided to turn my Windows gaming computer (Ryzen 5 2600, 32GB RAM, Sapphire RX590 Nitro+) into a homeserver and it looks like FreeNAS is perfect for this. I started to read the docs and watched some videos. Well.. it was so much information that now I feel totally lost. I hope to get some answers, even they may be out there in the documentation. I am just lost a bit.
Because my computer was a former gaming pc, I bought several drives of different sizes and it seems like this may be of a problem. I'd move data so some of them are empty now, while some others contain all the movies and files I want to keep. 5 of them are WDs with 4 TB (3 more or less filled and 2 empty ones).
My plan was to build a pool with parity using 2 of them (the empty ones). I would then move the files from the other 3 (NTFS) into the pool. After this I would like to add those - now empty - drives to the pool as well (2 of them).
1st question: is this possible? Can I start with 2 drives of the same kind and size and mount the others to move my data?
I read, that I can't expand a pool with additional drives, but create a second pool. So there will be like 2 drives/folders then, made of 4 HDD? Or is it possible to make those 2 pools appear as one big drive?
And my question #3: I do have 1x 1 TB, 1x 2 TB and 1x 3 TB (plus the 4 TB that is left). Any chance to use them, even they are of different sizes? Is it possible to pool the 3 TB and use the combined 1+2 TB for parity/raid? Or the 4 TB together with 3TB+2TB? I don't like the idea of losing 10 TB, just because those drives have different sizes. Any chance?
Question #4: I do have one NVMe SSD for the OS and 2 SATA SSD (Crucial MX500 250 GB and Samsung 860 EVO 250GB). Can they be used for something? Maybe some sort of fast caching or something?
Thanks a lot and sorry for my english - not a native speaker.
Best,
Stardenver