Alright new to this forum and new to freenas.
I did some research and read the freenas guide from Cyberjock.
First of all I want a NAS that can be easily expandable. Without deleting the current zpool and making a new one with additional drives added in and I do not want to add additional VDEVS.
ZFS allows for a zpool to expand in only two ways.
Option 1: Replace all of the hard disks in a VDev with larger hard drives (aka autoexpand)
Option 2: Add additional VDevs.
I am going with Option 1.
Since I am looking for future expansion this is my plan
Parts
Intel Avoton server board either the 4 core or 8 core (this board has 12 SATA ports)
650 PSU
16 GB ECC Memory or 32GB ECC Memory (when I upgrade to Higher TB Drives)
10x 1 TB WD RED (RAIDZ3)
1x 128 SSD Cashe
1x 128 SSD FreeNas OS
I was thinking about doing a 16GB 3.0 USB for FreeNAS OS but i heard running off the USB has problems.
The reason why I am going with 1 TB is to fill up all the SATA Ports on the motherboard because I CANNOT add any physical hard drives when the vdev is created. The way I am going to expand my capacity is upgrading the drive to larger drives like 4 TB or 6 TB. I do not want to do option 2 which is erase the vdev pool and making a new one with the addition drives.
What do you guys think of this plan I am doing. Kinda overkill but I will think this is a great plan when I need to add more storage to my nas.
I did some research and read the freenas guide from Cyberjock.
First of all I want a NAS that can be easily expandable. Without deleting the current zpool and making a new one with additional drives added in and I do not want to add additional VDEVS.
ZFS allows for a zpool to expand in only two ways.
Option 1: Replace all of the hard disks in a VDev with larger hard drives (aka autoexpand)
Option 2: Add additional VDevs.
I am going with Option 1.
Since I am looking for future expansion this is my plan
Parts
Intel Avoton server board either the 4 core or 8 core (this board has 12 SATA ports)
650 PSU
16 GB ECC Memory or 32GB ECC Memory (when I upgrade to Higher TB Drives)
10x 1 TB WD RED (RAIDZ3)
1x 128 SSD Cashe
1x 128 SSD FreeNas OS
I was thinking about doing a 16GB 3.0 USB for FreeNAS OS but i heard running off the USB has problems.
The reason why I am going with 1 TB is to fill up all the SATA Ports on the motherboard because I CANNOT add any physical hard drives when the vdev is created. The way I am going to expand my capacity is upgrading the drive to larger drives like 4 TB or 6 TB. I do not want to do option 2 which is erase the vdev pool and making a new one with the addition drives.
What do you guys think of this plan I am doing. Kinda overkill but I will think this is a great plan when I need to add more storage to my nas.