Hello hello :)
New user here, albeit I've spent the better part of 22 years killing/rebuilding and messing around with IT gear but for the better half of 10 years I've had very little to do with builds (have grown fond of buy, set and forget).....until now :)
So I've landed myself the following piece of kit that I'm looking at building into my home TrueNAS network/storage:
1) Cisco WS-C3750X-24P Switch
2) Cisco UCS C240 M3 server with the following specs:
- 2 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 0 @ 2.70GHz
- 64gb RAM @ 1600mhz
- 4 x 1gb NIC
- 2 x PSU
- RAID LSI 9271-8i
- 10 x 900gb SAS 10k 2.5"
- 12 x 1.2tb SAS 10k 2.5"
My basic use for my server will be:
1) Home Assistant - Home automation
2) Internal Plex server
3) Data storage. I also do a bit of photo editing using Lightroom/Photoshop so I'd like to try and migrate my catalogue across to the NAS, but apart from that I won't be need huge write speeds to the server
4) NVR Home Security using 6 x POE Cameras (I've yet to settle on which cameras I'm going with, still doing my research on that). With the camera setup I'm going to be running BlueIris and programming in detection zones for recording, but I'd like to try and store a weeks worth of recordings on the server but the most important thing with the NVR setup is I'll be creating a separate VLAN later for the system to operate on. I'm thinking of dedicating 2 or 3tb worth of storage for this system (open to recommendations for more if need).
So my question is that I have no idea what I want to configure in terms of HDDs. I basically came from a 5 bay Synology system (which I'll be maintaining on the current network as just mass storage) and I have a spare 1.2tb and 900gb drives sitting in my draw as replacements, so redundancy wise I'm happy with a RAID5 style config (single HDD failure) but again, open to suggestions.
I've been reading quite a bit into the whole hardware RAID vs ZFS config and I cannot come to a conclusion as to what to run. I'm not sure if my server has any SATA slots where I could possibly slot in a small SSD I have laying around which I could use as a boot drive?
Would love some technical advice on how to proceed.
Thanks again :)
Brad
New user here, albeit I've spent the better part of 22 years killing/rebuilding and messing around with IT gear but for the better half of 10 years I've had very little to do with builds (have grown fond of buy, set and forget).....until now :)
So I've landed myself the following piece of kit that I'm looking at building into my home TrueNAS network/storage:
1) Cisco WS-C3750X-24P Switch
2) Cisco UCS C240 M3 server with the following specs:
- 2 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 0 @ 2.70GHz
- 64gb RAM @ 1600mhz
- 4 x 1gb NIC
- 2 x PSU
- RAID LSI 9271-8i
- 10 x 900gb SAS 10k 2.5"
- 12 x 1.2tb SAS 10k 2.5"
My basic use for my server will be:
1) Home Assistant - Home automation
2) Internal Plex server
3) Data storage. I also do a bit of photo editing using Lightroom/Photoshop so I'd like to try and migrate my catalogue across to the NAS, but apart from that I won't be need huge write speeds to the server
4) NVR Home Security using 6 x POE Cameras (I've yet to settle on which cameras I'm going with, still doing my research on that). With the camera setup I'm going to be running BlueIris and programming in detection zones for recording, but I'd like to try and store a weeks worth of recordings on the server but the most important thing with the NVR setup is I'll be creating a separate VLAN later for the system to operate on. I'm thinking of dedicating 2 or 3tb worth of storage for this system (open to recommendations for more if need).
So my question is that I have no idea what I want to configure in terms of HDDs. I basically came from a 5 bay Synology system (which I'll be maintaining on the current network as just mass storage) and I have a spare 1.2tb and 900gb drives sitting in my draw as replacements, so redundancy wise I'm happy with a RAID5 style config (single HDD failure) but again, open to suggestions.
I've been reading quite a bit into the whole hardware RAID vs ZFS config and I cannot come to a conclusion as to what to run. I'm not sure if my server has any SATA slots where I could possibly slot in a small SSD I have laying around which I could use as a boot drive?
Would love some technical advice on how to proceed.
Thanks again :)
Brad