Stylesetter
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- Jun 7, 2022
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Hi guys,
i want to turn my old gaming PC into NAS with the goal of having a fast and redundant shared drive that both my wife and i can access from the network. We will be storing mostly pictures and videos. Additionally it would nice if i could efficiently edit videos with the files that are located on the NAS, especially remotely when i am not in my home network.
My plan is to buy 2 WD Red Plus 4TB drives and start with a RAID1, i guess this would be a mirror in TrueNAS. And i want to use my old NVMe drive as a L2ARC cache. And eventually i would like to buy two more drives and add them to the setup and make a RAID5 setup because from my research this should give me the fastest write/read speeds.
A couple of questions:
1. After adding two more drives can i easily turn the RAID1 into a RAID5 setup by converting the setup to striped mirrors?
2. How would i go about configuring the change to striped mirrored pools?
3. Can i dual boot Windows just in case i need to use this pc as a desktop or will Windows have problems with the raid drives and nmve drive that has been used as L2ARC cache?
4. Could i leave my old GPU in the setup or will this just increase my electricity bill unnecessarily?
5. Are there any changes/upgrades i should consider for this setup to vastly improve performance?
PC Specs:
RAM: D4 8GB 2133-14 fury black k2
CPU: intel core i5-6600k
Motherboard: Asus z170 Pro Gaming Z170
NVME Drive: Crucial P1 M.2 1TB
Drives: WD Red Plus 4 TB
i want to turn my old gaming PC into NAS with the goal of having a fast and redundant shared drive that both my wife and i can access from the network. We will be storing mostly pictures and videos. Additionally it would nice if i could efficiently edit videos with the files that are located on the NAS, especially remotely when i am not in my home network.
My plan is to buy 2 WD Red Plus 4TB drives and start with a RAID1, i guess this would be a mirror in TrueNAS. And i want to use my old NVMe drive as a L2ARC cache. And eventually i would like to buy two more drives and add them to the setup and make a RAID5 setup because from my research this should give me the fastest write/read speeds.
A couple of questions:
1. After adding two more drives can i easily turn the RAID1 into a RAID5 setup by converting the setup to striped mirrors?
2. How would i go about configuring the change to striped mirrored pools?
3. Can i dual boot Windows just in case i need to use this pc as a desktop or will Windows have problems with the raid drives and nmve drive that has been used as L2ARC cache?
4. Could i leave my old GPU in the setup or will this just increase my electricity bill unnecessarily?
5. Are there any changes/upgrades i should consider for this setup to vastly improve performance?
PC Specs:
RAM: D4 8GB 2133-14 fury black k2
CPU: intel core i5-6600k
Motherboard: Asus z170 Pro Gaming Z170
NVME Drive: Crucial P1 M.2 1TB
Drives: WD Red Plus 4 TB