- Dec 30, 2016
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Here is the situation. I'm looking for a better storage setup for my home server. I'm currently just using a software RAID 1 setup in one of my PCs as network storage, but I'm looking for a solution that isn't going to cost a ton, but will give me better performance than running a software raid5/6 setup, and will also not require me to keep one of my gaming PCs booted all the time.
None of the data I'm storing is super critical, but I don't want to have a drive failure destroy it all either. My total space needs are currently only about 6TB, but idealy I'd like something that isn't a huge pain to expand.
I already have the server, and I'm running several VMs on it for a minecraft server, Plex server, etc. I'd also like to run a Steam Cache server just for fun. I was looking at throwing a hardware raid card into it, and running raid 5 or 6, but everybody seems pretty down on raid 5 and 6 lately. I tried software raid 5, and the performance is awful. I'm assuming I need a hardware solution, so that the storage can be shared over several VMs if it's going to be housed in the same physical box as my server (which I would like it to be).
I wont use a proprietary hardware solution (synology etc.). I've have 2 bad experiences with Synology and with a WD Mycloud that have soured me on it.
I don't really know anything about Freenas/ZFS, or how that would work if I'm trying to run it in a VM, and also have the storage accessable to the other VMs. I'm a newbie at stuff like this, but I'm willing to learn if it's a good solution.
Hit my up with some ideas.
None of the data I'm storing is super critical, but I don't want to have a drive failure destroy it all either. My total space needs are currently only about 6TB, but idealy I'd like something that isn't a huge pain to expand.
I already have the server, and I'm running several VMs on it for a minecraft server, Plex server, etc. I'd also like to run a Steam Cache server just for fun. I was looking at throwing a hardware raid card into it, and running raid 5 or 6, but everybody seems pretty down on raid 5 and 6 lately. I tried software raid 5, and the performance is awful. I'm assuming I need a hardware solution, so that the storage can be shared over several VMs if it's going to be housed in the same physical box as my server (which I would like it to be).
I wont use a proprietary hardware solution (synology etc.). I've have 2 bad experiences with Synology and with a WD Mycloud that have soured me on it.
I don't really know anything about Freenas/ZFS, or how that would work if I'm trying to run it in a VM, and also have the storage accessable to the other VMs. I'm a newbie at stuff like this, but I'm willing to learn if it's a good solution.
Hit my up with some ideas.