Hello,
I was looking for some set-up advice. Tomorrow I'll be building FreeNAS for my home lab. I will be using it mainly for running VMWare disks over iSCSI. I'm trying to do this as cheaply as possible, reusing redundant (not old) hard drives. I'm getting a Dell T20, which has 6 HDD bays. These are the drives I have:
1x 256 SSD
1 x 1TB Disk
4 x 500GB Disks
How would you set up your raid arrays with the above? Is it best to use my SSD as cache disk? Include it in my RAID array? RAID Z1, Z2? I've noticed that due to the mix of sizes I will loose a fair amount of storage if I include my smaller SSD in the array.
Thanks!
I was looking for some set-up advice. Tomorrow I'll be building FreeNAS for my home lab. I will be using it mainly for running VMWare disks over iSCSI. I'm trying to do this as cheaply as possible, reusing redundant (not old) hard drives. I'm getting a Dell T20, which has 6 HDD bays. These are the drives I have:
1x 256 SSD
1 x 1TB Disk
4 x 500GB Disks
How would you set up your raid arrays with the above? Is it best to use my SSD as cache disk? Include it in my RAID array? RAID Z1, Z2? I've noticed that due to the mix of sizes I will loose a fair amount of storage if I include my smaller SSD in the array.
Thanks!