6 SATA + 4 SAS

[MtK]

Hey,
I'm looking into building another home/office storage with parts I already own.
I have 4 x 300GB SAS and 6 x 2TB SATA drives and Define R4 case.

I could probably get my hand on 2 x 2TB more and I was thinking about getting the SuperMicro X10SL7-F so in the future I could expand the server even more.

would it be a good idea to have 2 volumes:

1. 6 SATAs in RaidZ2 for the rest of the media and backups.
   a bit of a waste of those SAS ports but I could get a second 6 SATA striped vdev at a later stage.
2. 4 SASs in RaidZ2, maybe for documents that need somehow a bit of a faster access.
   maybe put the jails in here as well...?

any other suggestions?

 

[MtK]

No suggestions...?

 

[Ericloewe]

You can mix and match the drives however you please, but I'm not sure you'll have a pleasant experience with the SAS drives. They sound like 10kRPM drives. You're limited by your network, so all they'll be doing is wasting power, turning it into heat inside your case.

The X10SL7-F is pretty much the default choice if you need SAS or plan on expanding (unless you can get a good deal on a separate MB + LSI 2008/2308 card combination).

I recommend you stick to regular ol' 5400RPM drives. If you need the performance, you're better off with SSDs anyway (and you'd need 10GbE).