Grinas
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So this is my current setup and which is slowly running out of space.
Running TrueNAS-Scale-23 as VM in ESXI 6.7
CASE and MB: DELL T20
CPU: E3-1225v3
RAM: 32GB ECC RAM 26GB reserved to Truenas VM
HDD: 2 * 3 TB WD RED HDD - RAIDZ1
HDD: 2 * 4 TB WD PURPLE HDD - RAIDZ1
HDD: 2 * 4 TB WD RED HDD - RAIDZ1
Spare 4 TB Toshiba HDD
All of the above are in 2 x RAIDZ1 | 3 wide | Mixed Capacity
HBA Card: LSI 9217-8i in IT mode
PSU: 500W EVGA, 80 PLUS
My 2 * 3TB look to be on the way out so i bought 2 10TB seagate surveillance drives to replace them but since purchasing them I found that i can get 16TB exos x16 through my companies main distributor for only double the price of 4 TB WD REDs and less than i paid for the 10TB drives. These are OEM but the RMA should not be a problem if something goes wrong the disti said.
My plan is to start from scratch with the 2 * 10TB drives and 2-3 of the 16TB. Is it in my best interest here to just not use the smaller drives? Some of these are less than a year old and i really would like to get some use out of them as due to my location and taxes i ended up paying over €100 for each of them.
Also i have a couple of 1TB SSDs lying around. Is it worth my while using one for cache or is that a waste of one of my 8 sata connection since my main use case with this NAS is data hoarding and running some apps like Photo-Prisim, Unifi controller, qbit and a couple of web apps?
Running TrueNAS-Scale-23 as VM in ESXI 6.7
CASE and MB: DELL T20
CPU: E3-1225v3
RAM: 32GB ECC RAM 26GB reserved to Truenas VM
HDD: 2 * 3 TB WD RED HDD - RAIDZ1
HDD: 2 * 4 TB WD PURPLE HDD - RAIDZ1
HDD: 2 * 4 TB WD RED HDD - RAIDZ1
Spare 4 TB Toshiba HDD
All of the above are in 2 x RAIDZ1 | 3 wide | Mixed Capacity
HBA Card: LSI 9217-8i in IT mode
PSU: 500W EVGA, 80 PLUS
My 2 * 3TB look to be on the way out so i bought 2 10TB seagate surveillance drives to replace them but since purchasing them I found that i can get 16TB exos x16 through my companies main distributor for only double the price of 4 TB WD REDs and less than i paid for the 10TB drives. These are OEM but the RMA should not be a problem if something goes wrong the disti said.
My plan is to start from scratch with the 2 * 10TB drives and 2-3 of the 16TB. Is it in my best interest here to just not use the smaller drives? Some of these are less than a year old and i really would like to get some use out of them as due to my location and taxes i ended up paying over €100 for each of them.
Also i have a couple of 1TB SSDs lying around. Is it worth my while using one for cache or is that a waste of one of my 8 sata connection since my main use case with this NAS is data hoarding and running some apps like Photo-Prisim, Unifi controller, qbit and a couple of web apps?