NAS filesystem choice

adriel-tech

adriel-tech

Hello,

I am currently building a NAS out of old parts. specs are:
  • CPU: AMD sempron 2.2 ghz
  • Ram: 4 gigs
  • HDD: 2x hitachi 1TB, 1x 40GB WD raptor, 1x 500GB

What I was planning to do was:
  • 40GB raptor would be the OS drive
  • 1TB DATA I care about
  • 1TB Nightly rsync backup of DATA drive
  • 500GB Drive for torrents/FTP
  • All drives would be UFS

With the hardware I have, would ZFS be a better idea?
If so What sort of hard drive layout would you suggest?
 
soupbowl said:
With the hardware I have, would ZFS be a better idea?
If so What sort of hard drive layout would you suggest?
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ZFS would be the best choice for your 2x hitachi 1TB drives on a mirrored pool.
For the rest I would suggest UFS+J currently available on 9.0-BETA1.

Regards
 
If you can find yourself another 500 GB drive, then you could create a ZFS pool with 2 mirror vdevs (2x1TB + 2x500 GB) for 1.5 TB of usable storage. And use the 40 GB for the OS install and swap space.

If that Sempron supports 64-bit Long Mode, then you can install the amd64 (64-bit) version of FreeBSD to get better, more stable support for ZFS. The 4 GB of RAM would work nicely with ZFS (I use 2 GB in my home server).
 
Thanks a lot for the replies, I can and will use amd64 freebsd, I think I will go ahead and find another 500gb drive and use your suggestions phoenix. Thank you for your input also gkontos.
 
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