kaji22
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- Feb 26, 2021
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Greetings,
I am planning to build a new NAS and I have my eye on the TrueNAS Mini X+ with the hardware additions and planned configuration listed below. The idea is that this ends up being a TrueNAS Scale machine with GA hopefully arriving later in the year, but I see no reason why it would not work on Core also. I have read a number of posts on these forums and elsewhere so I think I am making decent decisions regarding the hardware and layout, but I am hoping someone with some more experience might notice if I am making a potential mistake.
I have 2 main questions...
1) Are the hardware choices below sensible for OpenZFS with the proposed capacities, l2arc, and slog?
2) Might I run into any gotchas regarding the partition layout, particularly with the multipurpose usage of the 2 SSDs?
Thanks for reading!
Hardware components
I am planning to build a new NAS and I have my eye on the TrueNAS Mini X+ with the hardware additions and planned configuration listed below. The idea is that this ends up being a TrueNAS Scale machine with GA hopefully arriving later in the year, but I see no reason why it would not work on Core also. I have read a number of posts on these forums and elsewhere so I think I am making decent decisions regarding the hardware and layout, but I am hoping someone with some more experience might notice if I am making a potential mistake.
I have 2 main questions...
1) Are the hardware choices below sensible for OpenZFS with the proposed capacities, l2arc, and slog?
2) Might I run into any gotchas regarding the partition layout, particularly with the multipurpose usage of the 2 SSDs?
Thanks for reading!
Hardware components
- TrueNas Mini X+ w/ 8 cores, 64 GB RAM, dual 10GbE NICs
- 5x: Western Digital Red Plus 10TB 3.5” HDDs
- 1x: Intel Optane 800P 118GB M.2 PCIe 3.0 NVMe
- 2x: Samsung 870 EVO 1TB 2.5” SSDs
- zroot pool
- mirror on Samsung SSDs (is 200GB plenty?)
- tank pool (media, backups, other file storage/shares, etc.)
- raidz2 pool on WD Red HDDs (30 TB usable)
- l2arc on Intel Optane NVMe (118 GB)
- slog as mirror on Samsung SSDs (small, maybe 10GB?)
- compute pool (for VMs, containers, etc.)
- mirror on Samsung SSDs (remainder after zroot/slog, ~790 GB)