Alpine7513
Cadet
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- Feb 14, 2024
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Here is my situation. I had a Qnap TS-451+ with 4 x 10TB drives in raid 5. It turns out that the infamous j1900 LPC failure happened to me. I knew nothing about this.
I recently upgrade my main system and had the old stripped system. Intel DG67SW with an i7-2600K and 32gb of ram. I am paranoid so that all my videos and audiobooks and pictures and software were backed up on multiple machines on multiple drives in each machine. I was able to piece together everything for the most part. The things I lost were non-important.
So I decided to use the old strip system for a TrueNas Scale box to get me up as a temporary unit until I can buy a new Qnap and hopefully insert the drives into the new system and hopefully fingers crossed my data will show up. If not, it’s not a big loss .
I installed 4 x western digital red, 6 TB drives I had laying around from the upgrade to the 10TB drives in the dead qnap. in the new truenas box as a zf1 vdev. Attached to an LSI HBA with two 250gb Samsung 860 ssd’s mirrored as boot drives attached to the MB's 6gb sata ports.
only the 6TB drives are on the LSI HBA.
This is just serving movies, TV shows that I’ve ripped from DVDs and Blu-ray‘s and my audiobook collection ripped from CDs to my local couple of computers only. but I am wondering should I install 2 x 120 Gb Samsung ssd’s as cache drives and maybe two more ssd’s for log drives? Of course the cache vdev would be stripped and the log zdev would be mirrored.
Is this overkill for just something in serving movies running a Plex server and saving my backups also?
The HBA is an LSI 9211-8i and the motherboard is maxed out at 32gb of ram.
It’s not using a lot of power I mean I’m not really worried too much about it but worst case scenario I have a Lenovo TD-340 server with dual processors with E5-2440 V2's and 96 gigs of RAM with eight bays that I could use instead but it’s going to use a ton of power with the dual 750W power supplies. am I over thinking this too much or will the 2600K be fine for what I’m using like I said again it’s just for accessing movies and audiobooks photos and software that I’ve worked on.
Do I need the Cache and Log vdevs? It maxes out my gig network now as it sits.
I am a complete noob at Linux and truenas . I am running Truenas Scale.
Thank you for any and all help. I truly appreciate it.
I recently upgrade my main system and had the old stripped system. Intel DG67SW with an i7-2600K and 32gb of ram. I am paranoid so that all my videos and audiobooks and pictures and software were backed up on multiple machines on multiple drives in each machine. I was able to piece together everything for the most part. The things I lost were non-important.
So I decided to use the old strip system for a TrueNas Scale box to get me up as a temporary unit until I can buy a new Qnap and hopefully insert the drives into the new system and hopefully fingers crossed my data will show up. If not, it’s not a big loss .
I installed 4 x western digital red, 6 TB drives I had laying around from the upgrade to the 10TB drives in the dead qnap. in the new truenas box as a zf1 vdev. Attached to an LSI HBA with two 250gb Samsung 860 ssd’s mirrored as boot drives attached to the MB's 6gb sata ports.
only the 6TB drives are on the LSI HBA.
This is just serving movies, TV shows that I’ve ripped from DVDs and Blu-ray‘s and my audiobook collection ripped from CDs to my local couple of computers only. but I am wondering should I install 2 x 120 Gb Samsung ssd’s as cache drives and maybe two more ssd’s for log drives? Of course the cache vdev would be stripped and the log zdev would be mirrored.
Is this overkill for just something in serving movies running a Plex server and saving my backups also?
The HBA is an LSI 9211-8i and the motherboard is maxed out at 32gb of ram.
It’s not using a lot of power I mean I’m not really worried too much about it but worst case scenario I have a Lenovo TD-340 server with dual processors with E5-2440 V2's and 96 gigs of RAM with eight bays that I could use instead but it’s going to use a ton of power with the dual 750W power supplies. am I over thinking this too much or will the 2600K be fine for what I’m using like I said again it’s just for accessing movies and audiobooks photos and software that I’ve worked on.
Do I need the Cache and Log vdevs? It maxes out my gig network now as it sits.
I am a complete noob at Linux and truenas . I am running Truenas Scale.
Thank you for any and all help. I truly appreciate it.