Jason Giddens
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- Jun 8, 2013
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Hey all,
I have been running a Freenas 9 and then 11.2 server for many years and I am preparing to upgrade my hardware. My use cases are simple, Plex, Sonarr, Radarr, Sabnzbd, Transmission in docker containers. I also want to run some other docker containers (Pihole, ubiquiti, home asst) and probably a full VM or two, more if I am testing something. I just today purchased the following:
Dell PowerEdge R720
2x E5-2690 (16 cores)
96Gb of ECC RAM, DDR3
H710 Perc RAID controller, 512mb
Samsung EVO 250Gb M2 drive, with USB adapter
4x 4TB HGST 7.2k, 6Gb/s SAS spinning drives
2x 200Gb Toshiba 12Gb/s SAS SSD's
I will flash the H710 to IT mode
I plan to install to and boot from the M2 SSD connected to the internal USB header.
I will use the 2x 200gb SSD's as a data store for VM's, containers etc. 1 Mirrored VDEV
the 4x 4Tb will be my media tank, 2x2 mirrored vdevs. I will add another pair of mirrored 4tb drives once I migrate some data
Questions -
- I know the M2 SSD is overkill for the boot, but I already have it lying around. Any good reason I shouldn't use it instead of buying a new USB stick?
- L2Arc, SLOG, ZIL. I have never had these any of these before. Do i need them? This is for home use, not enterprise.
- How does my storage pool design sound?
- I hear scale is pretty solid for basic use cases already. I plan to go Scale on the baremetal instead of ESXI or Proxmox. Is that crazy?
- What am I missing?
Thanks all!
I have been running a Freenas 9 and then 11.2 server for many years and I am preparing to upgrade my hardware. My use cases are simple, Plex, Sonarr, Radarr, Sabnzbd, Transmission in docker containers. I also want to run some other docker containers (Pihole, ubiquiti, home asst) and probably a full VM or two, more if I am testing something. I just today purchased the following:
Dell PowerEdge R720
2x E5-2690 (16 cores)
96Gb of ECC RAM, DDR3
H710 Perc RAID controller, 512mb
Samsung EVO 250Gb M2 drive, with USB adapter
4x 4TB HGST 7.2k, 6Gb/s SAS spinning drives
2x 200Gb Toshiba 12Gb/s SAS SSD's
I will flash the H710 to IT mode
I plan to install to and boot from the M2 SSD connected to the internal USB header.
I will use the 2x 200gb SSD's as a data store for VM's, containers etc. 1 Mirrored VDEV
the 4x 4Tb will be my media tank, 2x2 mirrored vdevs. I will add another pair of mirrored 4tb drives once I migrate some data
Questions -
- I know the M2 SSD is overkill for the boot, but I already have it lying around. Any good reason I shouldn't use it instead of buying a new USB stick?
- L2Arc, SLOG, ZIL. I have never had these any of these before. Do i need them? This is for home use, not enterprise.
- How does my storage pool design sound?
- I hear scale is pretty solid for basic use cases already. I plan to go Scale on the baremetal instead of ESXI or Proxmox. Is that crazy?
- What am I missing?
Thanks all!