Fireball81
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Hello there,
i am planning a new TrueNAS build, to expand our current backup capacity.
At the moment i am considering the SuperMicro SSG-540P-E1CTR45L, a top loading storage server with 45 bays that uses the X12SPI-TF motherboard.
This is supposed to be a backup storage server for video production data so i would like to make the most efficient use out of the 45 drive bays.
I am planning to use 18TB drives, starting with 2x raidz2 VDEVs, consisting of 10 harddrives each. That would obviously leave me with 5 empty drive bays in case i go from 2 VDEVS to 4 in the future.
A bunch of questions i want to get out of the way from the start:
- The SSG-540P-E1CTR45L seems like a perfect fit for our use-case but do you guys have any experience with the E1CTR45L, recommendations or maybe even an advice why the E1CTR45L is not a good idea?
- Instead of going for 2x raidz2 VDEVs, each with 10 harddrives, would it be feasible to go for 11 harddrives in one VDEV instead? That would lead to 44 overall drives, once i expand the pool from 2x VDEVs to 4 and therefor would make more efficient use of the 45 drive bays i have. But i think i read somewhere in the past that you re not supposed to create VDEVs with odd drive numbers or go beyond a certain amount of drives for each VDEV but i can`t exactly remember and can only found old information on this topic.
Thank you in advance for your help and opinions.
i am planning a new TrueNAS build, to expand our current backup capacity.
At the moment i am considering the SuperMicro SSG-540P-E1CTR45L, a top loading storage server with 45 bays that uses the X12SPI-TF motherboard.
This is supposed to be a backup storage server for video production data so i would like to make the most efficient use out of the 45 drive bays.
I am planning to use 18TB drives, starting with 2x raidz2 VDEVs, consisting of 10 harddrives each. That would obviously leave me with 5 empty drive bays in case i go from 2 VDEVS to 4 in the future.
A bunch of questions i want to get out of the way from the start:
- The SSG-540P-E1CTR45L seems like a perfect fit for our use-case but do you guys have any experience with the E1CTR45L, recommendations or maybe even an advice why the E1CTR45L is not a good idea?
- Instead of going for 2x raidz2 VDEVs, each with 10 harddrives, would it be feasible to go for 11 harddrives in one VDEV instead? That would lead to 44 overall drives, once i expand the pool from 2x VDEVs to 4 and therefor would make more efficient use of the 45 drive bays i have. But i think i read somewhere in the past that you re not supposed to create VDEVs with odd drive numbers or go beyond a certain amount of drives for each VDEV but i can`t exactly remember and can only found old information on this topic.
Thank you in advance for your help and opinions.