I've had a HP proliant N36L setup with freenas 7 for a fair while. It has a 2tb disk in it & I keep another 2tb disk and a 1tb offsite (backed up monthly). I'm coming to the point I need to increase storage beyond the 2tb.
I've come across another couple of 2tb disks & 8gb of ram, and am tossing up how I should best set the NAS up.
I know have 4 x 2tb disks, and 1 x 1tb disk.
I'm leaning towards all 4 x 2tb disks in the NAS setup as either RAID10 (2 mirrors) or RAIDZ2 – both giving me 4tb usable. As I read it RAID Z2 would be the way to go given with 4 disks it shares the risk of failure across all the disks, where as a couple of 2tb mirrors could be cactus if the 2 disks in a mirror failed.
Obviuosly I'm looking at RAIDZ2 I'm also thinking to move to FreeNAS8
So overall I'm thinking
4x2tb in RaidZ2
move from freenas7 to freeNas8
keep 1tb disk offsite for important data (back up intermittently)
All of this to serve as the main data storage for the household (serving video, music & files)
Does this sound a good way to go?
I've come across another couple of 2tb disks & 8gb of ram, and am tossing up how I should best set the NAS up.
I know have 4 x 2tb disks, and 1 x 1tb disk.
I'm leaning towards all 4 x 2tb disks in the NAS setup as either RAID10 (2 mirrors) or RAIDZ2 – both giving me 4tb usable. As I read it RAID Z2 would be the way to go given with 4 disks it shares the risk of failure across all the disks, where as a couple of 2tb mirrors could be cactus if the 2 disks in a mirror failed.
Obviuosly I'm looking at RAIDZ2 I'm also thinking to move to FreeNAS8
So overall I'm thinking
4x2tb in RaidZ2
move from freenas7 to freeNas8
keep 1tb disk offsite for important data (back up intermittently)
All of this to serve as the main data storage for the household (serving video, music & files)
Does this sound a good way to go?