Neil Whitworth
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- Nov 14, 2013
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I have been playing with FreeNAS (8.3.1) for a couple of months now - just seeing what I can/can not do with it. I treated myself one of these Supermicro 5017C-MTF ( X9SCL-F/E3-1220 V2 @ 3.10GHz/16 GB ECC RAM). I also bought 3 x Seagate ST4000VN000 4TB NAS drives which I have been running RaidZ - Yes, I know RaidZ is not ideal, but funds were limited and this was just to try things out before throwing everything away and starting again...
My plan is to use this system for storing (in order of importance):-
1) 1 pool with All 4 drives in RaidZ2.
Pros: Simple to understand, should survive failure of 2 hdds.
Cons: Only stores photos in a single location - if the worst happens and the pool is lost everything is gone.
2) 2 pools - 3 drives in RaidZ + 2nd pool of a single drive. On RaidZ vol create datasets for Photos/Backups/Media and then setup zfs replication for 'photos' to 2nd pool on single hdd.
Pros: photos on multiple pools- I can loose either pool and not loose data.
Cons: more complicated.
Is option 2) a good idea or just plain stupid?
My plan is to use this system for storing (in order of importance):-
- Primary storage of Digital Photos. currently around 200Gb but growing steadily
- Backups of other computers. Probaly around 0.5Tb - 1 Tb
- Media rips (CD/DVD). Annoying if lost but not critical. Probably around 2Tb+
1) 1 pool with All 4 drives in RaidZ2.
Pros: Simple to understand, should survive failure of 2 hdds.
Cons: Only stores photos in a single location - if the worst happens and the pool is lost everything is gone.
2) 2 pools - 3 drives in RaidZ + 2nd pool of a single drive. On RaidZ vol create datasets for Photos/Backups/Media and then setup zfs replication for 'photos' to 2nd pool on single hdd.
Pros: photos on multiple pools- I can loose either pool and not loose data.
Cons: more complicated.
Is option 2) a good idea or just plain stupid?