Hi guys,
I'm new to the FreeNAS world and I would like some advice in terms of ZFS concepts from the pro's among us. I went through the FreeNAS 4 Noobs documentation in this forum and I've been reading up on RAIDZ 'levels' and similar 'What setup is best for me?', but I've gotten clueless on what would work for me.
My setup is the following:
5 x 4Tb HDD
1 x 3Tb HDD
FreeNAS runs on a USB dongle
I would like to use this NAS for two things mainly:
*Serve up my media library across the home network
*Archive: Storing backups (A NAS isn't a backup solution I know ), documents and files I would like to keep, ...
From what I have been reading, the right RAIDZ setup would depends on the following trade-offs:
*Read/Write Performance
*Data stability (disk failure)/Storage capacity
Did I get this right?
If yes, I would want my media library to have a good read performance (it's written once, read more frequently) and storage capacity would be more important than stability.
However the 'Archive' is the exact opposite, keep the data is important over storage.
Can anyone let me know if my reasoning is sound? Am I missing something? What setup would you recommend for this?
Thanks a bunch
I'm new to the FreeNAS world and I would like some advice in terms of ZFS concepts from the pro's among us. I went through the FreeNAS 4 Noobs documentation in this forum and I've been reading up on RAIDZ 'levels' and similar 'What setup is best for me?', but I've gotten clueless on what would work for me.
My setup is the following:
5 x 4Tb HDD
1 x 3Tb HDD
FreeNAS runs on a USB dongle
I would like to use this NAS for two things mainly:
*Serve up my media library across the home network
*Archive: Storing backups (A NAS isn't a backup solution I know ), documents and files I would like to keep, ...
From what I have been reading, the right RAIDZ setup would depends on the following trade-offs:
*Read/Write Performance
*Data stability (disk failure)/Storage capacity
Did I get this right?
If yes, I would want my media library to have a good read performance (it's written once, read more frequently) and storage capacity would be more important than stability.
However the 'Archive' is the exact opposite, keep the data is important over storage.
Can anyone let me know if my reasoning is sound? Am I missing something? What setup would you recommend for this?
Thanks a bunch