Hello. Recently I have inherited an older 45drives server (REV4) to manage with the following specs:
- 15 6TB WD RED NAS SATA drives
- 15 4TB Seagate SATA drives (sorry cannot recall model)
- CPU: i3 3220
- RAM: I will max it out at 32GB, DDR3 1333MHz, ECC
- Boot drive will be a 256GB SSD
The server has Windows server 2012 on it and I am going to replace this with FreeNAS. I have experimented very briefly with FreeNAS in the past. I have read about ZFS a bit. I plan on making the boot drive an SSD.
I am a little lost as to the best way to set up the drives I have with ZFS. How can I optimize the configuration? I will be setting up with RAIDZ, but I am not sure about how many vdevs to make, or how many disks to assign to each, how many pools to make, how many vdevs per pool - ??.
This will be primarily a file server with users that access via SMB and AFP with PC and Mac.
- 15 6TB WD RED NAS SATA drives
- 15 4TB Seagate SATA drives (sorry cannot recall model)
- CPU: i3 3220
- RAM: I will max it out at 32GB, DDR3 1333MHz, ECC
- Boot drive will be a 256GB SSD
The server has Windows server 2012 on it and I am going to replace this with FreeNAS. I have experimented very briefly with FreeNAS in the past. I have read about ZFS a bit. I plan on making the boot drive an SSD.
I am a little lost as to the best way to set up the drives I have with ZFS. How can I optimize the configuration? I will be setting up with RAIDZ, but I am not sure about how many vdevs to make, or how many disks to assign to each, how many pools to make, how many vdevs per pool - ??.
This will be primarily a file server with users that access via SMB and AFP with PC and Mac.