Hello!
I currently have a DS415+ that has served me well for years, but it is now time to improve my backup strategy and move on!
I plan to move this DS415+ off-site as a backup NAS and replace it at home with TrueNAS Scale on a custom build (details in my signature).
I have 3 types of storage needs for my NAS:
Is this a good use of what I already have? Is this iefficient? Can you think of something better? Could I merge the AppsPool with the BackupPool but use the SSD in front? Is that what ZIL does?
I currently have a DS415+ that has served me well for years, but it is now time to improve my backup strategy and move on!
I plan to move this DS415+ off-site as a backup NAS and replace it at home with TrueNAS Scale on a custom build (details in my signature).
I have 3 types of storage needs for my NAS:
- Backups: Personal computer backups, photos, etc.
- Estimated size: 4-6Tb
- Protection against 2-disk failures
- Encrypted
- Off-site backup
- Apps: App configuration files for Docker containers
- Estimated size: 50Gb
- Protection at least against 1-disk failure (or more if it makes sense for configuring the pools)
- Encrypted
- Off-site backup
- Data Hoarding: Downloaded files
- Estimated size: Whatever space will be remaining (10Tb+)
- Protection against 1-disk failure
- Not encrypted
- No off-site backup
- 4x HDD WD Red 4Tb
- 2x HDD IronWolf Pro 8Tb
- 1x HDD IronWolf 8Tb
- 1x HDD Exos X18 18Tb
- 1x NVMe WD Blue 1Tb
- 1x NVMe Samsung 970 EVO Plus 256Gb
- NVMe 1: EVO 970 256Gb
- NVMe 2: WD Blue 1Tb
- Sata 1: Exos 18Tb
- Sata 2: IronWolf Pro 8Tb
- Sata 3: IronWolf Pro 8Tb
- Sata 4: IronWolf 8Tb
- Sata 5: WD Red 4Tb
- Sata 6: -
- Sata 7: -
- Sata 8: -
- Boot: NVMe 1: EVO 970 256Gb
- BackupPool (Three-way mirror):
- Sata 2: IronWolf Pro 8Tb
- Sata 3: IronWolf Pro 8Tb
- Sata 4: IronWolf 8Tb
- AppsPool: (Mirror)
- NVMe 2: WD Blue 1Tb
- Sata 5: WD Red 4Tb
- DataPool: (Mirror)
- Sata 1: Exos 18Tb
- Buy another Exos 18Tb
Is this a good use of what I already have? Is this iefficient? Can you think of something better? Could I merge the AppsPool with the BackupPool but use the SSD in front? Is that what ZIL does?