November 10, 20241 yr I want a server to run several docker containers for my smart home, etc and also for jellyfin / transcoding. It should save power so i want to work with c apackages later. I thought about this setup: 6x Toshiba Cloud-Scale Capacity MG10ACA 20TB Lexar NM790 4TB, M.2 2280 Intel Core i5-12400 Crucial DIMM Kit 64GB, DDR4-3200, CL22-22-22 GIGABYTE B760M DS3H AX DDR4 Noctua NH-D9L Fractal Design Node 804 Corsair SF Series Platinum SF750 750W SFX (And a AMS1166 m2 card so i can plugin all HDDs) What do you? What should i change? Is this a power saving setup? Is the PSU with 750W way too much? Edited November 10, 20241 yr by mattism
November 13, 20241 yr I would add a second SSD and BTRFS pool your cache, losing that drive without redundancy would not be fun. Edited November 13, 20241 yr by JaY_III
November 13, 20241 yr ZFS is probably a safer choice than BTRFS for pool drives. Just don't use ZFS in the parity array for now.
November 13, 20241 yr Author So consensus: Add a second SSD with ZFS for pool cache? First time using unraid, do i need a SSD which has the same size as my nvme? The nvme should be around 4 TB, i have a 2,5" ssd in my drawer, does this work or do i need second 4 TB device?
November 13, 20241 yr Two devices set for redundancy (RAID1) will have the usable capacity of the smaller device and the write speed of the slower one. Mismatched devices will work with those caveats.
November 14, 20241 yr Author Alright in this case i will obviously use 2x NVMe with the same size. Do you think 2x 2 TB is enough for this setup and purpose?
November 14, 20241 yr 1 hour ago, mattism said: Do you think 2x 2 TB is enough for this setup and purpose? Probably, but it depends on which containers you end up using. No way for me to know what you will end up getting into, but 2TB is plenty for most people.
November 16, 20241 yr Author On 11/14/2024 at 5:45 PM, JonathanM said: Probably, but it depends on which containers you end up using. No way for me to know what you will end up getting into, but 2TB is plenty for most people. Most of them are for my smart home (like home assistant, homebridge, zigbee2mqtt, mqtt broker, etc), after that a cloudflare ddns, grafana/prometheus but also qbittorrent with severale services binded to that (gluetun, prowlarr, sonarr, radarr). Stuff like that.
November 16, 20241 yr Even with logging for home power consumption, untaid, and unifi (to influxdb) and multiple years worth of data, a win 98, 10, and 11 VM (3 total) I'm around 300gb... Only problems have been with a pihole-unbound docker going sideways and filling up docker allocation with logs. I don't do the torrent stuff though. I do use a different pool for write cache.
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