Hello everyone,
Admittedly, I'm a newb here when it comes to TrueNAS, so looking for any and all suggestions regarding optimal setup of ZFS pools... I've long been in the QNAP ecosystem with many of their different NAS products, but recent events and performance has got me looking over the fence to see how green the neighbor's yard truly is.
I recently installed TrueNAS Scale onto a TS-1679U-RP with the following specs (no apparent hw issues or incompatibilities):
The main purpose of this storage will be for archiving large video files (i.e. actual lossless video projects, not BD-rips or torrent downloads) and Cloned Images / TimeMachine backups. I have the 2x M.2 SATA drives available for 1TB caching, but it is unclear based on my research how beneficial this will be to me with ZFS, or even how to best set this up with TrueNAS.
I'm hoping someone here can take a quick look at the above and recommend an optimal storage pool setup. Whether I should create multiple storage pools, the layout type, etc. I currently run with RAID 6 or 10 on most of my storage units, if that is of any help.
Thanks.
Admittedly, I'm a newb here when it comes to TrueNAS, so looking for any and all suggestions regarding optimal setup of ZFS pools... I've long been in the QNAP ecosystem with many of their different NAS products, but recent events and performance has got me looking over the fence to see how green the neighbor's yard truly is.
I recently installed TrueNAS Scale onto a TS-1679U-RP with the following specs (no apparent hw issues or incompatibilities):
- Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1275 V2 @ 3.50GHz
- 32GB 1866MHz RAM
- 16x 4TB 7200rpm SATA HDD
- 2x M.2 SATA 512GB SSD
- QNAP QM2-2S-220A Dual M.2 SATA SSD Expansion PCIe Card
- Emulex OneConnect 10Gbps PCIe NIC
- 1x 120GB SATA SSD
The main purpose of this storage will be for archiving large video files (i.e. actual lossless video projects, not BD-rips or torrent downloads) and Cloned Images / TimeMachine backups. I have the 2x M.2 SATA drives available for 1TB caching, but it is unclear based on my research how beneficial this will be to me with ZFS, or even how to best set this up with TrueNAS.
I'm hoping someone here can take a quick look at the above and recommend an optimal storage pool setup. Whether I should create multiple storage pools, the layout type, etc. I currently run with RAID 6 or 10 on most of my storage units, if that is of any help.
Thanks.