New build

[hippy]

I need a little advice, I'm building my first DIY NAS and I have 6 WD red 2TB drives, one 16GB m.2 nvme and a 250GB SSD(I have room for more SSD's) and 32GB of DDR5.

 

I plan on having Hexos on the 16GB M.2 as the main boot drive, 6 HDD's in raid 1 or 2 and the 250GB SSD as a cache drive. Would this be the best way to configure the drives?

It'll just be a home server, light use. Sonarr, Radarr etc etc and serving files to my plex server (nvidia shield).

 

 

Any advice would be appreciated.

 

 

Thanks

 

 

Callum

[Dylan]

3 hours ago, hippy said:

Any advice would be appreciated.

I think you'll be more than fine with that gear. That's essentially what I will be running. 4 bay NAS chassis with 4x8TB disks  in a raidz2 (because I'm paranoid like that) with 32GB DDR4, with HexOX running on a 512Gb SSD (it came with that sized drive) and I will install a 1Tb m.2 SSD for cashing just to see if that helps. My use-case is primarily streaming movies, probably some light tailscale usage and file/image store and I fully expect that to be more than sufficient, especially has we move out of beta and into 1.0.

Hope that helps and good luck!!

[PsychoWards]

Are those WD Red or Red Plus or Red Pro? Simple WD Red are not ideal for a NAS, despite WD marketing them as NAS drives, since they a SMR an not CMR drives, the performance can suffer.

Other than that, if you can spare the extra capacity lost go with a RaidZ2, meaning you will have 8TB storage and you can lose 2 drives without losing any data.

However, at the moment Hexos will always create a RaidZ1 meaning you can only lose 1 drive but have 10TB storage.

[Mobius]

also worth considering what you want from your cache drive. Read caches are a thing but write cache ssds are not really a thing. The ram is mostly used as the write cache. For more information look up l2arc vs slog