New Unraid Server - Feedback & Ideas

[jlightfo]

Hi,

 

Building a new Unraid NAS for Plex, Vm's & Docker as well as mass storage. Spec's at the bottom, primary question. For my primary storage pool if i start with 2x8tb, 1x5tb & 1x 2tb then proceed to migrate data from my old nas approx 10tb will i have enough initial storage after parity and overhead? Following this i will then add another 5tb and 2tb drive into the pool.

 

Secondly, my 2x500gb SSD's I was planning as mirrored VM hosting space. Am i better to have these drives just for VM's and Containers or use them as cache drives and store the VM's and Containers in the primary storage pool?

 

Does this all sound reasonable?

 

Thanks for any constructive help in advance.

 

Spec's

Unraid NAS

 

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	Title	Comments	Price	Quantity	Has
	StarTech.com USBMBADAPT 6 Inch USB 2.0 A to USB 4 Pin to Motherboard Header Adapter F/F, USB cable, USB (F) to 4 Pin USB 2.0 Header (F) Offered by Amazon.		£2.38	1	0
	Corsair CMK16GX4M2B3200C16 Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4 3200 MHz C16 XMP 2.0 High Performance Desktop Memory Kit, Black Offered by Amazon.		£64.99	1	0
	Seagate BarraCuda Pro 8 TB Internal Hard Drive Performance HDD – 3.5 Inch SATA 6 Gb/s 7200 RPM 256 MB Cache for Computer Desktop PC Laptop, Data Recovery (ST8000DM004) Offered by CCL Computers.		£177.34	1	0
	TCSUNBOW 480 GB 500GB SSD 2,5 Zoll SATAIII 6 GB/s Interne Solid State Festplatte Mit 512 Mt Cache für Notebook Tablet Desktop PC Offered by SunBow.		£50.99	1	0
	Seasonic Focus SGX 650W Power Supply, SFX-L, Full Modular, 80 Plus Gold, 90% Efficiency, Hybrid Silent Fan Control, ATX Bracket Included, 10 Years Warranty, Versatile & Powerful | Black Offered by Amazon.		£139.00	1	0
	ASUS Prime B450M-A Micro ATX Motherboard, AMD Socket AM4, Ryzen 3000 Ready, PCIe 3.0, M.2, DDR4, LAN, HDMI, DVI-D, D-Sub, USB 3.1, Aura Sync RGB Header Offered by Amazon.		£73.98	1	0
	AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Processor (6C/12T, 35 MB Cache, 4.2 GHz Max Boost) Offered by Amazon.		£158.99	1	0
	Noctua NH-L9a AM4, Premium Low-profile CPU Cooler for AMD AM4 (Brown) Offered by NOCTUA - Designed in Austria.		£36.62	1	0
	Rivo PCIe SATA Card, 8 Port with 8 SATA Cable, SATA Controller Expansion Card with Low Profile Bracket, Marvell 9215 Non-Raid, Boot as System Disk, Support 8 SATA 3.0 Devices(SA3014) Offered by Rivo.		£47.88	1	0
	SilverStone SST-CS381 - Case Storage ATX Midi Tower Computer Case, black internal, support 8x 3.5" or 2.5" Hot-Swap HDD Bays, lockable front door, black Offered by Amazon.		£299.99	1	0
	PNY Quadro P2200 Quadro P2000 Graphic Card 5120 MB Offered by The Full-Cart.		£452.00	1	0
	SanDisk SDCZ50-016G-B35 16 GB Cruzer Blade USB 2.0 Flash Drive - Black ( Standard Packaging ) Offered by Amazon.		£4.92	1	0

 

[harryk]

2 hours ago, jlightfo said:

For my primary storage pool if i start with 2x8tb, 1x5tb & 1x 2tb then proceed to migrate data from my old nas approx 10tb will i have enough initial storage after parity and overhead?

One of the 8 TB drives will serve as the parity drive with the remaining drives as storage, so you'll have 8+5+2 = 15 TB of space available. The losses due to formatting are low.

 

2 hours ago, jlightfo said:

Secondly, my 2x500gb SSD's I was planning as mirrored VM hosting space. Am i better to have these drives just for VM's and Containers or use them as cache drives and store the VM's and Containers in the primary storage pool?

You can set the SSDs as cache drives and still store the VMs and Containers on them. The only reason to designate the drives for the VMs only would be if you didn't want to use virtual disks. Or if you are concerned about the VMs needing more space on the fly which may not be available on the cache drive. 

[Jarsky]

23 hours ago, jlightfo said:

For my primary storage pool if i start with 2x8tb, 1x5tb & 1x 2tb then proceed to migrate data from my old nas approx 10tb will i have enough initial storage after parity and overhead? Following this i will then add another 5tb and 2tb drive into the pool.

Yes you will have enough. One of your 8TB's will have to be the Parity disk. The rest can be data disks giving you 15TB, so more than 10TB once formatted

 

23 hours ago, jlightfo said:

Secondly, my 2x500gb SSD's I was planning as mirrored VM hosting space. Am i better to have these drives just for VM's and Containers or use them as cache drives and store the VM's and Containers in the primary storage pool?

Personally this is how I have it configured. I left them out of the storage pool as unassigned devices, and created a mirror. You could probably do that with MDADM, I used the ZFS Plugin and ZFS to create my mirror. Then mapped my docker & vm paths. You can do that under Settings > Docker, and Settings > VM Manager (Advanced View)