Hey legends!

Nas

Just wanting everyones opinions on my nas build and if im going overboard or what raidz should I run ect

Current parts OS: truenas Case: Silverstone CS330 Mobo: Dell T3620 Tower mobo CPU: E3-1225v5@3.3 Ram: 32GB ECC non registered PSU: Seasonic SFX Gold 650W HDD: 7x 8tb seagate ironwolf nas drives Boot M.2 drive: corsair P3 500tb SSD: x3 crucial 2tb sata Network card: Intel X540-T2 10G Dual RJ45 HBA: DELL H310 Graphics card: 1660 super

Basically a bit stuck on what to do for storage with the HDDs either raidz 1 or 2

And ill be running another raid z1 pool with the SSDs for apps on truenas plus NFS storage for either steams games or photos that I’m editing

I also don’t think I will be running a mirror on the boot drive as backing things up regularly will be my fail safe

Lmk if im going wrong or right anywhere any opinions welcome

Much love xx

  • aetherspoon@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    How much storage are you looking at?

    I’ve been trying to recommend Z1 for up to four drive arrays and Z2 for five to eight.

    And no need to mirror your boot drive.

    • oldyellah@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      7 8tb nas drives raidz1 or raidz2 (haven’t made up my mind)

      3 2tb ssds (raidz1)

      Both in their own pools

  • WrongColorPaint@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I think that’s a really solid setup, you should be happy.

    Mine isn’t Dell but pretty similar to yours. Mine is a Fractal 804 with SuperMicro x11-ssl-f mobo. I started with e3-1220v5 cpu and eventually swapped that out for e3-1268Lv5 cpu (just a low power/low tdp cpu). My mobo only has gigabit NICs so I used a AOC-STGN-i2s (dual SFP+). I have 2x 10GbE uplinks in LACP and even that e3-1220v5 was able to saturate a 10gb link so as long as you aren’t running a ton of VM’s and stuff it should be plenty fast.

    I’m TN-Core only. Nothing else and my drives are all in mirrored pairs because that’s where my VMs live. I’ve got same dell h310, 64gb ecc udimm ddr4, 8x 4tb drives (mirrored pairs), 4x 2tb ssd (also mirrored) and 2x ssd’s for boot (mirrored). I think boot drives are 256gb? I forget.

    My second NAS is also TN-Core but a VM with pci-e device passthrough. That machine has 8x 12tb in rz2. I’m not sure that I’d want to risk a rz1 pool with drives up over 6tb, but maybe I’m being too conservative. Inside the case of each of the servers I have a “cold spare” drive (extra 4tb and one extra 12tb).

    Of all things: I actually lost a boot drive. Only way I’d run a NAS without mirrored boot drives is probably if I did PxE (network boot).

    Maybe pick up another 8tb drive so you have even # 8x drives? (that’s just my OCD not wanting 7x drives)