Please bare with me on the specifics. I am deciding whether to invest on replacing the smaller drives. I'm looking for input on that as well!
Hardware/environment
16 drive bay case
7x 4TB drives
2x 3TB drives
3x 2TB drives
2x 1.5TB drives
14 total drives so 2 bays are empty.
16 GB RAM (money is tight, is it necessary to have 32GB? Will I see a HUGE performance hit if I don't?)
Uses will include home office backup, media, plex, accessing drives from separate ESXI homelab
2-3 computers accessing the data.
Obviously I have some mismatched drives in there. Here are my thoughts on the situation.
ZFS configurations for each size disks
8(purchase 1 disk) 4TB disks
raidz2 1zpool, 1vdevs of 8 disks
32TB total, 21.8TB usable
6(purchase 4 total, replacing 2x 1.5TB and filling the two empty spaces in the bay) 3TB disks
zraid2, 1zpool, 1vdevs of 6 disks
18TB total, 10.9TB usable
3x 2TB disks (These maybe replaced with 3TB drives if the wife doesn't kill me.)
zraid1, 1zpool, 1vdevs of 3 disks
6TB total, 3.6TB usable
Please feel free to critique and ask questions. Thanks for reading!
PS - A special thanks to soulburn for the clear and precise formatting. Hopefully I made it just as clear.
Hardware/environment
16 drive bay case
7x 4TB drives
2x 3TB drives
3x 2TB drives
2x 1.5TB drives
14 total drives so 2 bays are empty.
16 GB RAM (money is tight, is it necessary to have 32GB? Will I see a HUGE performance hit if I don't?)
Uses will include home office backup, media, plex, accessing drives from separate ESXI homelab
2-3 computers accessing the data.
Obviously I have some mismatched drives in there. Here are my thoughts on the situation.
ZFS configurations for each size disks
8(purchase 1 disk) 4TB disks
raidz2 1zpool, 1vdevs of 8 disks
32TB total, 21.8TB usable
6(purchase 4 total, replacing 2x 1.5TB and filling the two empty spaces in the bay) 3TB disks
zraid2, 1zpool, 1vdevs of 6 disks
18TB total, 10.9TB usable
3x 2TB disks (These maybe replaced with 3TB drives if the wife doesn't kill me.)
zraid1, 1zpool, 1vdevs of 3 disks
6TB total, 3.6TB usable
Please feel free to critique and ask questions. Thanks for reading!
PS - A special thanks to soulburn for the clear and precise formatting. Hopefully I made it just as clear.