kjnicoletti
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Howdy. I am upgrading my 7 year old TrueNAS server. This will be a direct replacement, I am mainly hoping to 1 - increase available storage and 2 - get better Plex transcode performance while maintaining SMB performance. I appreciate any input.
The current box is running TrueNAS Core 12.2. I run 6 jails (Plex, Transmission, SABnzbd, Radarr, Sonarr, UniFi). This should stay the same - anything heavier I would run on my ESX server. Plex is/will be a max of 2 simultaneous streams. On the current box, Plex chokes trying to transcode 4K, I try to keep to only direct streaming. The SMB shares are for a home environment, only two light users. The backup share is one PC making nightly differential backups, fulls once per week.
My current storage is one pool, comprised of a single vdev, RAID-Z3 for 24.7 TB usable (64% used). I plan on staying with one pool - single vdev, RAID-Z2 on the new server's pool (~54TB usable).
The 10GbE is connected DAC to a MicroTik CRS305-1G-4SplusIN switch.
I am wondering if I made any hardware compatibility mistakes and also if going from 8 (RAID-Z3) to 5 (RAID-Z2) spinning drives will significantly affect performance. I am also considering whether I should max memory at 128GB or if that's overkill. I am hoping to use the iGPU to transcode with Plex. I am not 100% locked into TrueNAS Scale, but it seems like the future and I'd like to make the switch if I can.
Thanks!
The current box is running TrueNAS Core 12.2. I run 6 jails (Plex, Transmission, SABnzbd, Radarr, Sonarr, UniFi). This should stay the same - anything heavier I would run on my ESX server. Plex is/will be a max of 2 simultaneous streams. On the current box, Plex chokes trying to transcode 4K, I try to keep to only direct streaming. The SMB shares are for a home environment, only two light users. The backup share is one PC making nightly differential backups, fulls once per week.
My current storage is one pool, comprised of a single vdev, RAID-Z3 for 24.7 TB usable (64% used). I plan on staying with one pool - single vdev, RAID-Z2 on the new server's pool (~54TB usable).
| Plex media | 6.5 TB |
| SMB shares | 3 TB |
| transmission | 2 TB |
| Veeam backup share | 4TB |
| Old NAS | New NAS | |
| MB | SuperMicro X10SL7-F-O | SuperMicro X11SCH-LN4F-O |
| CPU | Intel Xeon E3-1241 v3 Haswell 4/8C 3.5/3.9GHz | Intel Xeon E-2176G Coffee Lake 6/12C 3.7/4.7GHz |
| Memory | 4 x Crucial 8GB DDR3 ECC 1600 (PC3L 12800) | 4 x Black Diamond 16GB DDR4 ECC Unbuffered 2133 (PC4 17000) |
| Case | Fractal Design Define R5 Black | Fractal Design Define R5 Black |
| OS Drive | SuperMicro SSD-DM016-PHI SATA DOM | Supermicro SSD-DM032-SMCMVN1 32GB SATA DOM |
| ZFS Storage | 8 x Seagate IronWolf 6TB NAS Hard Drive 7200 RPM 128MB | 5 x Seagate 18TB Exos X18 7200 RPM 256MB |
| NIC | Intel X520-1 10 GbE SFP+ | Intel X520-1 10 GbE SFP+ |
| PSU | SeaSonic SSR-450RM 450W | SeaSonic Focus GX-550, 550W 80+ Gold, Full-Modular SSR-550FX |
The 10GbE is connected DAC to a MicroTik CRS305-1G-4SplusIN switch.
I am wondering if I made any hardware compatibility mistakes and also if going from 8 (RAID-Z3) to 5 (RAID-Z2) spinning drives will significantly affect performance. I am also considering whether I should max memory at 128GB or if that's overkill. I am hoping to use the iGPU to transcode with Plex. I am not 100% locked into TrueNAS Scale, but it seems like the future and I'd like to make the switch if I can.
Thanks!
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