FreeNAS Setup

[Deaerator]

I'm curious to how other people have their FreeNAS setup.  

 

1.How many drives in your system?

2. How many vdev's do you have?

3. How do you have your vdev's setup. 

4 What raidz do you prefer?

5. How hard is it to expand your pool?

6. ISCSI or not to ISCSI?

[themctipers]

ran FreeNAS before, turned it off when USB died

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1, 0, n/a, I think FreeNAS uses ZFS 'raid 10' by default, pretty easy from the looks of it, ?

[knightslugger]

1: 4 drives + 3 USB in Mirror for boot

2: just one, Plex Server i'm an idiot, thought you meant ... nevermind. just one.

3: all 4 drives in one vdev

4: above or equal to RAIDz2

5: as simple as installing larger hard drives and resilvering. once all drives are the same physical size, you get a capacity boost.

6: if you need to then do so, if you don't know what that is, then no.

[newgeneral10]

I have a relatively new Freenas Box (couple of months now) with the following specs:

 

PCPartPicker part list: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/VGsXWX
 

CPU: Intel - Core i3-6300 3.8GHz Dual-Core Processor
CPU Cooler: be quiet! - Pure Rock Slim 35.1 CFM CPU Cooler 
Motherboard: ASRock - E3V5 WS ATX LGA1151 Motherboard 
Memory: Kingston - ValueRAM 16GB (1 x 16GB) DDR4-2133 Memory
Storage: SanDisk - SSD PLUS 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
Storage: Western Digital - Red 1TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive  x5
Power Supply: Rosewill - Hive 550W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  
Case: Logisys 4801 ($69.99)
 

I have one Raidz2 array with the Hard Drives and the SSD is in its own vdev.  I use the hard drives for general storage (backups, media, documents, etc.) and the SSD is for jails.  I love it and haven't had any problems with it (after upgrading from Corral to 11).  I also have two USBs mirrored as a boot drive.

 

Expanding the pool shan't be that hard, if you know what you're doing...

 

I use SMB/CIFS shares for everything.  I don't use ISCSI and I personally don't think I need it.

[Mikensan]

System 1:

Spoiler

 

1.How many drives in your system?

9

2. How many vdev's do you have?

2

3. How do you have your vdev's setup. 

RaidZ1 (Primary Data)

5x 4TB disks (vdev1)

RaidZ2 (Backups)

4x 3TB disks (vdev2)

 

 

 

System 2:

Spoiler

 

1.How many drives in your system?

3

2. How many vdev's do you have?

3

3. How do you have your vdev's setup. 

1x 500GB SSD per vdev

Then I put all 3 vdevs in a pool which stripes them.

 

4 What raidz do you prefer?

Depends on what you need it for...

VMs: Striped mirrors (Raid10)

Data: RaidZ1 in a home environment with backups, RaidZ2 if production with backups

5. How hard is it to expand your pool?

As easy as adding an identical vdev and adding it to the pool...

6. ISCSI or not to ISCSI?

For what?

 

Since I have a datastore on my RaidZ1 I really wish I planned it out better and went with striped mirrors.

My VMs on my SSD pool are backed up nightly, only virtual desktops are running there currently so if they were lost... big whoop. I'd be back up and running in an hour at most.