Hello Folks.
I need some advice as my jedi skills are somewhat lacking the force is weak and I have searched the forums, help pages for the past 3 weeks and I cannot get a specific answer to my particular question so I am forced to register to ask a question that has more than likely been asked a million times by now anyhow I can’t find it anywhere.
I have read the tutorials and have a grasp of what is going on and how to go about setting this up I am coming unstuck somewhat as I as I just need some clarity what I wish to know is this the correct approach and can anyone give pointers.
I just need a place to keep my files creating a direct link between pc and my nas via static ip 10Gbe connection.
So here it goes.
I realise hard drives are called Vdevs in turn these are allocated to pools, then a data set, then a share.
My question is I wish to build a server using the below configuration
Ultimately I wish to grow my server to 24 X Seagate 18TB HDD Exos for now I with only buy or use 8 hard drives to start my build with aZ2 configuration,suits me sir.
Intel Core i7-12700K 3.60GHz (Alder Lake) Socket LGA1700 Processor
Asus ROG Strix Z690-E Gaming WIFI - Intel Z690 LGA 1700 DDR5 ATX Motherboard
MEMORY DDR5
POWER SUPPLY 750 watt
LSI 9211-8i P20 IT Mode
And a Lenovo 16 Port Mini SAS SATA Expander
Intel X540-T1 10GbE 1 Port PCI
Problem you see I can not afford to go buy 24 hard drives on day one of my build and configure my nas. I have been reading you should not create anything over a 11 wide hard drive array for best practices yet I need enough room to grow my media library over the years to come without running out of capacity or having to go to the expense of another server build as I would like to keep it all in the one pc case.
Can I create the below
8 X Segate exos hard drives in a raid Z2 configuration with two discs allocated to parity X 3 separate pools one for media one for music and one for miscellaneous documents.
If it is not possible to configure my server build that way so I can grow it over the coming years, is it possible to create separate pools of storage separate from one another I take it they dont interfere with each other and if this is all wrong then what is the better way to do it, I would hate to have too many hard drives in the one pool as rebuild times will be crippling and not recommended. I just dont know enough to be confident in myself to say yes go ahead as it is a lot of money to throw at this project so what to know I am 100% going forward.
Thank you to all who reply.
I need some advice as my jedi skills are somewhat lacking the force is weak and I have searched the forums, help pages for the past 3 weeks and I cannot get a specific answer to my particular question so I am forced to register to ask a question that has more than likely been asked a million times by now anyhow I can’t find it anywhere.
I have read the tutorials and have a grasp of what is going on and how to go about setting this up I am coming unstuck somewhat as I as I just need some clarity what I wish to know is this the correct approach and can anyone give pointers.
I just need a place to keep my files creating a direct link between pc and my nas via static ip 10Gbe connection.
So here it goes.
I realise hard drives are called Vdevs in turn these are allocated to pools, then a data set, then a share.
My question is I wish to build a server using the below configuration
Ultimately I wish to grow my server to 24 X Seagate 18TB HDD Exos for now I with only buy or use 8 hard drives to start my build with aZ2 configuration,suits me sir.
Intel Core i7-12700K 3.60GHz (Alder Lake) Socket LGA1700 Processor
Asus ROG Strix Z690-E Gaming WIFI - Intel Z690 LGA 1700 DDR5 ATX Motherboard
MEMORY DDR5
POWER SUPPLY 750 watt
LSI 9211-8i P20 IT Mode
And a Lenovo 16 Port Mini SAS SATA Expander
Intel X540-T1 10GbE 1 Port PCI
Problem you see I can not afford to go buy 24 hard drives on day one of my build and configure my nas. I have been reading you should not create anything over a 11 wide hard drive array for best practices yet I need enough room to grow my media library over the years to come without running out of capacity or having to go to the expense of another server build as I would like to keep it all in the one pc case.
Can I create the below
8 X Segate exos hard drives in a raid Z2 configuration with two discs allocated to parity X 3 separate pools one for media one for music and one for miscellaneous documents.
If it is not possible to configure my server build that way so I can grow it over the coming years, is it possible to create separate pools of storage separate from one another I take it they dont interfere with each other and if this is all wrong then what is the better way to do it, I would hate to have too many hard drives in the one pool as rebuild times will be crippling and not recommended. I just dont know enough to be confident in myself to say yes go ahead as it is a lot of money to throw at this project so what to know I am 100% going forward.
Thank you to all who reply.