Server Hardware

[Aroma4038]

QNAP TL-R1200C-RP using it as DAS and 9x 10tb WD 3.5" HDDs

A server with the following specs:
- PRO H610T D4-CSM LGA1700 Motherboard
- 14th Gen Core i7 14700T 1.3GHz 20C/28T 35W
- Corsair Vengeance 32GB DDR4 RAM
- 120W  power adapter
- Samsung 990 PRO 1TB SSD

How does HexOS do the drive pools, I plan on adding drives as the years go on and hope to have the one storage location.

 

Will HexOS see the TL-R1200C as more storage?

 

[Mobius]

1 hour ago, Aroma4038 said:

How does HexOS do the drive pools, I plan on adding drives as the years go on and hope to have the one storage location.

As long as you start with 3 drives (2 for storage +1 for parity) you can expand the the drive pool using raidz expansion.

To my best understanding raidZ expansion is similarly taxing on your drives as resilvering is. Doing it multiple times might increase risk of drive failure.

Alternatively you can add storage vdevs of equal size every time you want to expand. Theoretically it is less taxing on your drives.
example you start with a 3 drive raidz1 pool, you can add another 3 drive raid z1 vdev to the same pool and your storage will double.
However as far as i know this will have to be done in the truenas ui.

1 hour ago, Aroma4038 said:

Will HexOS see the TL-R1200C as more storage?

HexOS may or may not properly recognize your DAS. For most DAS hexos only sees one of the many drives making it pretty pointless.
This is because most mutli drive enclosures don't pass on the serial numbers of each drive to the os but rather the same generic serial number for all the drives, confusing the os.
The off chance it does pass along the serial numbers, hexos will be able to see it and use it but we don't recommend using external storage as it can cause problems

1 hour ago, Aroma4038 said:

14th Gen Core i7 14700T 1.3GHz 20C/28T 35W

The off chance you haven't bought your hardware yet, i would like remind you that intel 13th and 14th gen cpus have been prone to dying.
Intel did release a microcode update that should fix the issue but they said that multiple times so its not something i would like to roll the die on.
But if you did buy it already make sure to do a bios update. Theoretically since you have a T sku itll be less likely to pull the power needed to fry itself.
 

1 hour ago, Aroma4038 said:

Samsung 990 PRO 1TB SSD

Also don't use a 1tb ssd for your boot drive. Hexos/Truenas only uses a very small amount of storage for the os (under 16gb iirc) and then locks away the rest of the storage.

We generally recommend the smaller ssds in order to not waste your money.

1 hour ago, Aroma4038 said:

PRO H610T D4-CSM LGA1700 Motherboard

Taking a quick look at this motherboard
It uses a realtek nic (network interface card) and while it might work, it might also cause problems.
a lot of unexpected bugs have been because of realtek nics

It also only has 2 sata ports and no pcie slots so you will have to use a m.2 to sata adapter, if you want to add more drives.
I'm not familiar with the reliability of that kind of adapter so hopefully someone else chimes in on that regard.
However i generally see people recommending pcie hba cards for additional sata expansion.


Coming from PC building i made a lot of silly mistakes building my first nas. 
So many things you just wouldn't expect like the realtek nic.

[Aroma4038]

Thanks for your detailed response.

How would you add drives to my setup? I want to purchase another rack mounted chassis and hook that chassis up to my server.

Could you point me in any direction?

 

N.b. I do already have the server

[Aroma4038]

Thanks for your detailed response.

How would you add drives to my setup? I want to purchase another rack mounted chassis for HDDs* and hook that chassis up to my server.

Could you point me in any direction?

 

N.b. I do already have the server