juenoman400
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- Jan 13, 2021
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Hello all,
I am new to this all and trying to learn as much as I can. I am sort of stuck on raidz2 or mirrored drives. I inherited a supermicro 24 bay case and 18 new 8Tb hard drives.
My intended usage for this server is to store my large collection of movies, My family photos and videos (very important), Music, and video game data. I also want my mac time machine saves to go here as well as windows backups. I plan to install emby in a jail and use it for media viewing on three televisions and three PC's. (Not all at the same time but, at times maybe three at a time will be in usage).. I don't plan to virtualize. The photos are very important to me so I purchased an external hard drive 8tb and I will set it up so freenas saves a copy there. (I have lots of reading to do). I am looking at about 14tb total once I put everything on this freenas box.). The photos and family videos are critical. Everything else I can lose, (I wouldn't be happy but I could live with it. Hopefully I wouldn't suffer a loss.). It would just take me a while to rip my movies and music again and get all the titles tags etc.
I have been reading over as much of the information here as I can trying to absorb it all.
1. How would all of you set this up? Would a raidz (I have read that raidz1 should be avoided )setup be best or would mirroring be a better path?
I am new to this all and trying to learn as much as I can. I am sort of stuck on raidz2 or mirrored drives. I inherited a supermicro 24 bay case and 18 new 8Tb hard drives.
My intended usage for this server is to store my large collection of movies, My family photos and videos (very important), Music, and video game data. I also want my mac time machine saves to go here as well as windows backups. I plan to install emby in a jail and use it for media viewing on three televisions and three PC's. (Not all at the same time but, at times maybe three at a time will be in usage).. I don't plan to virtualize. The photos are very important to me so I purchased an external hard drive 8tb and I will set it up so freenas saves a copy there. (I have lots of reading to do). I am looking at about 14tb total once I put everything on this freenas box.). The photos and family videos are critical. Everything else I can lose, (I wouldn't be happy but I could live with it. Hopefully I wouldn't suffer a loss.). It would just take me a while to rip my movies and music again and get all the titles tags etc.
I have been reading over as much of the information here as I can trying to absorb it all.
1. How would all of you set this up? Would a raidz (I have read that raidz1 should be avoided )setup be best or would mirroring be a better path?