Disk Array Suggestions

[charliEfromKN]

Hi all,

 

I'm going to be building a NAS/Plex/HTPC server with future tinkering in mind.

I have purchased 2 x 500GB SSDs and 8 x 4TB NAS HDDs.

I am planning on using the 2 SSDs in Soft-RAID1 and will be installing Ubuntu Server. It will also host all docker installations, like Plex, and VMs, specifically Windows 10 for Media playback, etc.

As for the 8x4TB drives, I am not sure which route to go. I have read about mergefs+SnapRAID configurations, ZFS, and RAID6.

I'm also fairly new to Linux and have little knowledge, so simple setup and minimal management will be a plus.

Most data stored will be static, but will be adding files pretty frequently (2-3 video files daily).

Also, the ease of adding more drives in the future will need to considered.

 

Which disk array should I use for the 8x4TB drives?

 

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thank you.

[leadeater]

Are you sure you want a RAID 0 boot/OS drive? If one of those SSDs fails or goes a bit odd everything will be lost on that RAID array and you'll have to rebuilding everything. Probably too late now but a single 1TB SSD would have been better, less chance of failure.

 

You could use ZFS, btrfs or mdadm, you planning on adding more disks to the array at a later date?

 

Edit:

Durp adding more drives was mentioned.

 

ZFS can be a little bit of a pain to add disks to i.e. just 1. BTRFS might be the best choice depending on other factors like what you are going to use to host VMs and containers.

[charliEfromKN]

Hi leadeater, sorry for the confusion. I meant to say Soft-RAID1 for OS.

As for the VMs and containers, it will be hosted on the RAID1 SSDs.

I'll do some digging on BTRFS.

Thanks for the suggestion.