Hi,
I am doing my first Freenas build. This NAS will be backing up important files, thus my goal is reliability and safety.
Speed or throughput are not a concern for me as it will be only be used by me and I won't be doing any intensive tasks.
I have a Dell PowerEdge T20 and I have ordered 32 GB (max for this box) of ECC ram.
Next, I would like to understand how best to setup my hard drives.
I don't know what size and what configuration (raidz1 vs raidz2) would be optimal.
I bought an expansion card that will allow to me to put 2 extra SATA drives for a total of 6 3.5 inch drives.
I don't have a specific amount of usable hard drive space that I need, but I would like to max out this box to make it as future proof as possible.
If I stick to the 1gb/tb rule, I have been thinking about these setups:
Thanks
I am doing my first Freenas build. This NAS will be backing up important files, thus my goal is reliability and safety.
Speed or throughput are not a concern for me as it will be only be used by me and I won't be doing any intensive tasks.
I have a Dell PowerEdge T20 and I have ordered 32 GB (max for this box) of ECC ram.
Next, I would like to understand how best to setup my hard drives.
I don't know what size and what configuration (raidz1 vs raidz2) would be optimal.
I bought an expansion card that will allow to me to put 2 extra SATA drives for a total of 6 3.5 inch drives.
I don't have a specific amount of usable hard drive space that I need, but I would like to max out this box to make it as future proof as possible.
If I stick to the 1gb/tb rule, I have been thinking about these setups:
- 4x8TB in a raidz1
- 4x8TB in a raidz2
- 5x6TB in a raidz2
Thanks