I am currently considering moving back for FreeNAS and ZFS, but I was considering to run 8 drive RaidZ2 volumes, but after reading this thread I am no longer sure. I also tried looking at the blog post and Google Doc linked in the thread, but didn't understand too much.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...jHv6CGVElrPqTA0w_ZY/edit?pli=1#gid=2126998674
http://blog.delphix.com/matt/2014/06/06/zfs-stripe-width/
It is mainly a media server for movies and TV-series, but I would also like it to function as FTP and Plex server.
I have 1:1 copies of everything stored off-site so redundancy is not the most important. It is only there so I will reduce the risk of having to rebuild everything and manually copy everything back onto the server.
As for speed I am more then happy as long as I can "max out" my Gbit Ethernet.
Currently my server is running Windows 8 Storage Spaces without parity, and it's been working great. But I recently passed the 63TB limit, and I would prefer everything to be stored on the same pool, so unless they up the limit in Windows 9 I need to move elsewhere.
Currently I have the following disks:
4 TB Seagate NAS HD x4
3TB WD Enterprise Raid x12
4TB WD Enterprise Class SE x 7
And I have also picked up 2x WD Red 6TB drives
I believe these are all 4k disks
Is it safe to have the 4TB Seagate disks in the same Vdev as the 4TB WD disks?
Anyone got a suggestion on how I should set this up without wasting too much space?
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...jHv6CGVElrPqTA0w_ZY/edit?pli=1#gid=2126998674
http://blog.delphix.com/matt/2014/06/06/zfs-stripe-width/
It is mainly a media server for movies and TV-series, but I would also like it to function as FTP and Plex server.
I have 1:1 copies of everything stored off-site so redundancy is not the most important. It is only there so I will reduce the risk of having to rebuild everything and manually copy everything back onto the server.
As for speed I am more then happy as long as I can "max out" my Gbit Ethernet.
Currently my server is running Windows 8 Storage Spaces without parity, and it's been working great. But I recently passed the 63TB limit, and I would prefer everything to be stored on the same pool, so unless they up the limit in Windows 9 I need to move elsewhere.
Currently I have the following disks:
4 TB Seagate NAS HD x4
3TB WD Enterprise Raid x12
4TB WD Enterprise Class SE x 7
And I have also picked up 2x WD Red 6TB drives
I believe these are all 4k disks
Is it safe to have the 4TB Seagate disks in the same Vdev as the 4TB WD disks?
Anyone got a suggestion on how I should set this up without wasting too much space?
