Is the the way?

[thomasdk81]

Is this the the way to do it?

Hi guys,
I have no spend a lot hours on with my new storage solution should look like.

Hardware:
Intel I3-2100T CPU
Intel DH67CF-B3 H67 Mini-itx MB
8GB ram
2x 2TB Seagate Barracuda Green 5900RPM SATA/600 (New)
2x 2TB WD20EARS SATA/300 (sits in my Win7 PC)
2x 2TB WD20EARX SATA/600 (New)
1x 60GB SSD OCZ SOLID 3
ADAPTEC 1430SA SATA Controller

I started out with Ubuntu server, but I believe FreeNAS has won my heart :)
The only thing I will miss on FreeNAS is Dropbox, but I get ZFS :D

So the SSD is of no real use with FreeNAS, was my first thoughts, when I saw FreeNAS is going to run of my 4GB USB stick.

But then I stumbled upon ARC, L2ARC and mirroring the zil.

So I was thinking about making 2 volumes with RaidZ giving me 8 TB of data. Splitting the drives, so one of each model is in the 2 volumes.
But the L2ARC and logs on the SSD (no idea how, I am sure I can find some guide somewhere).

My system is going to run FreeNAS+mumble+LAMP(or what the package is called on BSD), maybe some software to manage a CCTV.

There wont be much work for the HDD's but I do run torrents 24/7, so I was thinking about leaving one of the HDD's out of the raid and leave all torrent activity on that.

Does this sound stupid?
How would you do it?

Regards
Thomas

 

[thomasdk81]

Or maybe just a simple 6 disk raidz2?

 

[matthewowen01]

you're reading a lot of stuff about how to tweak ZFS for big behemoths of servers. you have a minnow. the SSD is a waste of money at your level, they only help when you have a hug demand on your server that your hardware cannot keep up with demant. you're capped at gigabit and your drives will give it to you.

I'd do the 4 WD in a raidz2 (not a pair of stripped mirrors) and the 2 seagates in a mirror. use the mirror for your torrents and your webserver, just back up the data to the raidz2 nightly.

 

[thomasdk81]

Thanks, matthewowen01.
Its hard to see when the advise is targeted a "normal" NAS with 1Gb net or an "Enterprise" solution.

I already got the SSD. I thought I was installing Windows og Ubuntu, when I bought it and got it as a system disk.
If I install FreeNAS on it, it uses all of the space, thats okay. I don't have other uses for the SSD and then I don't have a USB-stick, sticking out at the back of the server :)

 

[thomasdk81]

I just added the 6x2TB disks to a RaidZ2.
The SSD just sits for now.