Put the 1x Gold each in the wife and my new computers we're setting up as a secondary drive to the SSDs for larger (but still wanting some speed) storage like a Steam Library (and other programs that are too large to fit on SSDs Take the remaining 5x SATA III ports and plugging in 5x Red NAS drives and make a RAIDZ1 which would give me around 24TB usable on them, and use them for storage for the Plex server
Mirrored partitions of ProxMox / SLOG/ L2Arc on the M.2 2TB, with another partition set aside for the VMs I figure at this point, my choices are either a 1x M.2 2TB and 1x Gold w/ 5x Red (Raid 5) EXT4 or the ZFS solution (which I like for BitRot) with something like:Ī couple of partitions on one of the Samsung/SANDISK SSDs for ProxMox / SLOG / L2ARC This also allows me to clean house and get rid of the bazillion 100GB/320GB/1TB/2TB/3TB drives and set up a proper server -and- proper backups and lose about 100lbs of drives, lol. (yes I know that HDDs fail as well, but this is a home set up, not running a business, so much less stress). Then I read about ZFS and know from past experience that BitRot is probably my number one concern with this amount of data, especially if I've got it all backed up on the NASs.
Openzfs super duper archive#
Since I'm putting the 6x 8TB 'cudas in the NASs, that'll give me plenty of long term / archive / backup storage, and with the exception of the primary VM, I'm not overly concerned about redundancy.
Openzfs super duper tv#
I figured my choices were to either manually balance the drive usage (1 Gold for direct storage/backup of the M.2 drive, 1 Gold for Movies, and 3 reds with the TV Shows balanced appropriately, figuring less usage on them individually) -or- throwing 1x Gold in and Raid 0ing / 5ing 5x of the Red NAS drives for a bit of redundancy. Originally I was going to use EXT4 on KVM til I ran across ProxMox (and ZFS).
2x WD Gold 6TBs / 5x WD Red NAS 6TBs (All CMR) / 6x Seagate Barracuda Green 8TB SANDISK 960GB SSD / Samsung 850 EVO 480GB / Intel 525 480GB, all 3 of which have similiar SATA III read/write speeds and the SAN/Sam around 90k100k W/R speeds, the Intel about half that (42k/50k) Ryzen 7 2700x / 64GB DDR4 w/ 1x M.2 NVME and 6x SATA III ports, with a choice of the following:
TL:DR - ProxMox Baremetal, 1 permanent VM, 4 or 5 additional VMs as needed on Personal Cloud, Ring Surveillance Camera, etc) and then being able to set up 4 or 5 VMs for lab scenarios as needed for the Cybersecurity program I'm currently doing. Needing to have a home lab for school (other than just hosting VMs through VirtualBox on my desktop), so I thought putting ProxMox on bare metal, running a permanent VM for the Plex server, along with adding some goodies to it (e.g. HP Proliant Gen5 2.33GHz / 24GB DDR2 connected to 2x 12TB NASs thru iSCSI (Iomega/NetGear) running a Plex server on Ubuntu 18.04
I've spent a couple of days researching ZFS (and it's pros/cons) for a new home server I'm building, and as soon as I think I have it figured out, I find more information on this thread (and other spots) that is making me second guess myself, so I figured I'd reach out and see what the ZFS Wizards think?
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