Hello everyone,
I am looking for a solution of combining a 2TB SSD and 2x 12TB HDDs.
I am new to servers and data hoarding. After my laptop HDD died I received a rude awakening call and decided to invest in redundancy and backups.
I got an 8GB RAM Zimaboard and a 2TB SSD because I like the idea of having a silent server. However, I would also like to add 2 mirrored HDDs to archive all of my data (I will add a separate backup machine in the future). The Idea I am trying to implement is to have a pool with the SSD for frequently used files that will be running silently and a pool of the mirrored HDDs that will only turn on for an automated weekly backup and sometimes for access to the archived files.
Is this a good solution and if so how would it be implemented in TrueNas?
My first attempt was creating a pool with the two HDDs with the SSD being used as a cache, however, the HDDs were always on despite adding a standby timer with level 1 power management which defeated the whole silent server Idea.
I am looking for a solution of combining a 2TB SSD and 2x 12TB HDDs.
I am new to servers and data hoarding. After my laptop HDD died I received a rude awakening call and decided to invest in redundancy and backups.
I got an 8GB RAM Zimaboard and a 2TB SSD because I like the idea of having a silent server. However, I would also like to add 2 mirrored HDDs to archive all of my data (I will add a separate backup machine in the future). The Idea I am trying to implement is to have a pool with the SSD for frequently used files that will be running silently and a pool of the mirrored HDDs that will only turn on for an automated weekly backup and sometimes for access to the archived files.
Is this a good solution and if so how would it be implemented in TrueNas?
My first attempt was creating a pool with the two HDDs with the SSD being used as a cache, however, the HDDs were always on despite adding a standby timer with level 1 power management which defeated the whole silent server Idea.