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DangerIsGo
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Currently I'm have a Norco 4020 case with 20 HDDs running Win 7 w/ Drive Bender (since I missed WHS/drive extender so much!)
Currently, out of the 45TB available, 13TB is used with another 13TB as duplicate. (That's 26TB utilized for the math illiterate folk here
What I'd like to do, is in the near future, when all the drives are the same (right now, only 8 need to be changed), I'd like to go to a software RAID solution, like FreeNAS which is really catching my eye, to better utilize my space.
My idea was to have every row in my NAS chassis be an array so that I would be able to use current set of disks to transfer my data over to the newly created array.
(e.g. Remove 4 drives from the drive bender pool, use them to create an array in freeNAS.
Transfer some data.
Remove 4 more drives. Create a new array. So on...)
Is this the best way of accomplishing this or is there a better way? My thought process was that since I heard a very large array rebuild could be on the order of a week or two, a smaller set of arrays would be more beneficial and I could just pool them together.
This brings me to my next part...a backup NAS. I'm petrified of losing my data which has taken me years and years to collect. I don't want to store it in the cloud (so no need to suggest this) so I was looking at after this build is 100% complete, to have a secondary, backup NAS. To be built in a similar fashion as this one, the OS/Software is still up in the air. Maybe a different solution in case an update bombs the primary? Who knows.
Would this be considered a sound investment?
Finally, my last bit. What would be the best way of transferring data between them. I'm also going to be having a separate windows machine which houses several windows applications needed to control some data on the NAS box.
Would gigabit ethernet be the best, or would a dedicated SAS card work better?
Does a SAS card/drivers work with FreeNAS?
Could a lot of overhead be produced to slow the machine/network if traffic is too high?
(I'm going to guess I would do Windows <-> P.NAS <-> S. NAS where the P. NAS would have dedicated connections to the windows box and the secondary NAS)
Thoughts on all this nonsense? Thanks!
Currently, out of the 45TB available, 13TB is used with another 13TB as duplicate. (That's 26TB utilized for the math illiterate folk here
What I'd like to do, is in the near future, when all the drives are the same (right now, only 8 need to be changed), I'd like to go to a software RAID solution, like FreeNAS which is really catching my eye, to better utilize my space.
My idea was to have every row in my NAS chassis be an array so that I would be able to use current set of disks to transfer my data over to the newly created array.
(e.g. Remove 4 drives from the drive bender pool, use them to create an array in freeNAS.
Transfer some data.
Remove 4 more drives. Create a new array. So on...)
Is this the best way of accomplishing this or is there a better way? My thought process was that since I heard a very large array rebuild could be on the order of a week or two, a smaller set of arrays would be more beneficial and I could just pool them together.
This brings me to my next part...a backup NAS. I'm petrified of losing my data which has taken me years and years to collect. I don't want to store it in the cloud (so no need to suggest this) so I was looking at after this build is 100% complete, to have a secondary, backup NAS. To be built in a similar fashion as this one, the OS/Software is still up in the air. Maybe a different solution in case an update bombs the primary? Who knows.
Would this be considered a sound investment?
Finally, my last bit. What would be the best way of transferring data between them. I'm also going to be having a separate windows machine which houses several windows applications needed to control some data on the NAS box.
Would gigabit ethernet be the best, or would a dedicated SAS card work better?
Does a SAS card/drivers work with FreeNAS?
Could a lot of overhead be produced to slow the machine/network if traffic is too high?
(I'm going to guess I would do Windows <-> P.NAS <-> S. NAS where the P. NAS would have dedicated connections to the windows box and the secondary NAS)
Thoughts on all this nonsense? Thanks!