Thomas Haggren
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- Sep 28, 2011
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Hi all
I have some spare parts/hardware and want to turn this into a NAS at home. It will be used for movies, music, pictures, documents etc. Simple home usage with 3 clients connected to it.
Hardware:
- Dell Optiplex 760, Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 (3GHZ), 6 GB ram
- 3 x 2TB WD (SATA3)
- 1 x 1TB WD (SATA2)
Before looking deeper into what Freenas has to offer I was thinking of configuring the 3 x 2TB disk as RAID5, but after reading many threads and blog entries I can see that ZFS RAIDZ might be a better choice.
From what I understand I will in both cases end up with approx 4TB storage - correct?
ZFS RAIDZ seems to be a little slower than the RAID5 setup - correct?
Could I use the 1TB for any of the "ZFS extra" options supported by Freenas (seems like the "spare" option is not really an option in this case).
So guys... I'm not really sure what to choose here... any comments/help/advice would be very much appreciated
(I will be doing "offline" backup onto 2 x 2TB external USB discs).
I have some spare parts/hardware and want to turn this into a NAS at home. It will be used for movies, music, pictures, documents etc. Simple home usage with 3 clients connected to it.
Hardware:
- Dell Optiplex 760, Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 (3GHZ), 6 GB ram
- 3 x 2TB WD (SATA3)
- 1 x 1TB WD (SATA2)
Before looking deeper into what Freenas has to offer I was thinking of configuring the 3 x 2TB disk as RAID5, but after reading many threads and blog entries I can see that ZFS RAIDZ might be a better choice.
From what I understand I will in both cases end up with approx 4TB storage - correct?
ZFS RAIDZ seems to be a little slower than the RAID5 setup - correct?
Could I use the 1TB for any of the "ZFS extra" options supported by Freenas (seems like the "spare" option is not really an option in this case).
So guys... I'm not really sure what to choose here... any comments/help/advice would be very much appreciated
(I will be doing "offline" backup onto 2 x 2TB external USB discs).