BloodyBonkers
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Hello. I currently have an hp microserver g8 equipped with a 1265L and 16GB of ram. (I intend to buy a motherboard for this CPU/RAM combo so I can place my rig in a define r5 or a rack case, but cannot afford this right now)
My current storage config is 3 WD red 2TB's in raidz1. for about 3.6TB of "usable" space. I do kind of find it a bit unsettling to use only raidz1 and am looking to go for a solution with higher redundancy.
After a flash sale, I managed to order myself a couple Ironwolf 2TB's (I would have preferred reds but this was considerably cheaper at the moment).
For now, I think I will only use 4 of the total 5 drives. (consider two use cases for the last drive 1. spare drive in case of failure. 2. used as hypervisor storage instead of iSCSI from freenas)
I have seen some discussion regarding the use of mirror vdevs vs raid6 and would like some input on a couple things.
-Whether you think mirror vdev's are sufficiently reliable when it comes to the risk of a second drive failing during a rebuild.
-Which one will be more suitable for my use? i.e. nextcloud <-> smb archive storage (famliy photos etc.), iSCSI for hypervisor/vm's (running unifi controller, + game servers)
-what performance numbers would I be looking at for both raidz2 and mirror vdev over a 10gbe connection. A rough estimation is ok.
In any case thanks for taking the time to answer.
EDIT: forgot to mention I will be running a PLEX server on it.
My current storage config is 3 WD red 2TB's in raidz1. for about 3.6TB of "usable" space. I do kind of find it a bit unsettling to use only raidz1 and am looking to go for a solution with higher redundancy.
After a flash sale, I managed to order myself a couple Ironwolf 2TB's (I would have preferred reds but this was considerably cheaper at the moment).
For now, I think I will only use 4 of the total 5 drives. (consider two use cases for the last drive 1. spare drive in case of failure. 2. used as hypervisor storage instead of iSCSI from freenas)
I have seen some discussion regarding the use of mirror vdevs vs raid6 and would like some input on a couple things.
-Whether you think mirror vdev's are sufficiently reliable when it comes to the risk of a second drive failing during a rebuild.
-Which one will be more suitable for my use? i.e. nextcloud <-> smb archive storage (famliy photos etc.), iSCSI for hypervisor/vm's (running unifi controller, + game servers)
-what performance numbers would I be looking at for both raidz2 and mirror vdev over a 10gbe connection. A rough estimation is ok.
In any case thanks for taking the time to answer.
EDIT: forgot to mention I will be running a PLEX server on it.
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