Alright folks smarter than me. I am waiting on parts to build my FreeNAS build, and I wouldn't ask this question if the parts were here and I could just MESS with the actual setup personally. Alas, that will be a week or so, so I will waste your time instead.
It all has to do with the ZFS system, and utilizing my current drives without spending any coin.
I am a hard drive peasant, and only have 2 x 2tb WD red drives, and 2 x 500gb other misc drives. All of the rest are 300gb or smaller, which aren't worth the power draw in my eyes.
What I am envisioning is 2tb+500gb "striped" being mirrored by the other 2tb+500gb drives. This may get me a bit better read/write speeds, while keeping some redundancy.
Is this doable or even worth doing? Is the performance increase going to be noticeable to add the complexity/power draw of the 2tb+500gb, or would just 2tb being mirrored make the most sense?
What would you do with this drive setup? This will basically be a plex server box and a file backup.
It all has to do with the ZFS system, and utilizing my current drives without spending any coin.
I am a hard drive peasant, and only have 2 x 2tb WD red drives, and 2 x 500gb other misc drives. All of the rest are 300gb or smaller, which aren't worth the power draw in my eyes.
What I am envisioning is 2tb+500gb "striped" being mirrored by the other 2tb+500gb drives. This may get me a bit better read/write speeds, while keeping some redundancy.
Is this doable or even worth doing? Is the performance increase going to be noticeable to add the complexity/power draw of the 2tb+500gb, or would just 2tb being mirrored make the most sense?
What would you do with this drive setup? This will basically be a plex server box and a file backup.