Damn! What kind of setup is this?
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Fully loaded network attached storage server running TrueNAS Scale.
Sexy, what's the specs for the storage server? Happy with TrueNAS Scale?
It's an iXsystems Mini R box, 160TB of raw storage, ZFS raided to 100TB. That's actually not much these days, you can buy 30TB individual hard drives now, 20TB ones are cheap.
TrueNAS has been pretty good, though I only use a fraction of its features.
Damn, Im jealous of that setup. What kind of harddrives would you recommend? I have three 4TB WD REDs atm which has worked pretty good for 5 years by now
Same here--it's all WD Red Pro drives.
Would you mind explaining a bit about the raid setup?
If you're not familiar with ZFS, it has a variety of disk redundancy options, equivalent to the traditional RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, 6, and 7, but done in software and integrated into the filesystem instead of using a hardware controller. It basically boils down to a tradeoff between how much storage space you want to sacrifice to redundancy and how many drives can fail simultaneously.
RAIDZ2, for example, allows two drives to fail without data loss (while you go replace those drives!)
You won’t believe it when he tells you. But it’s nuts.
I wouldn’t even know how best to manage all that space. Someday I’ll learn all the cool tools like proxmox and copy on write file systems, check pointing, tiered storage, etc.
Man I really want to set up a network attached storage device myself but I don't have the cash for it atm. And I probably have a lot to learn with disk specs, setups, etc. One day...
I need to look into NAS. I always keep storage and OS inside the same box and periodically migrate and it’s a pain.