Hi everyone,
I built my first NAS 2 years ago and after those two years and the help of many of you I think I'm ready to rethink my NAS from the scartch.
Right know I have:
-a 60GB ext4 SSD for OMV
-1 RAID1 of 4TB as EXT4
- 1 ZFS Mirror of 6TB
Right now I still don't have 4TB of data so I'm still in time to rebuild everything from the beginning.
What I need is a NAS that will work flowlessy without particul problem or manteinance. I will use it mostly for backup my photo (I also have an external HDD for them) and as a Media Server with Plex.
This is my idea:
- SSD: give OMV a 20GB partition, create a 20GB partition for settings of application. I will install them using docker and a 12GB swap-partition so that I can hibernate my NAS;
- Instead of RAID1 and ZFS Mirror I was thinking about a sync job that will sync from 4TB1 to 4TB2 and from 6TB1 to 6TB2 . I think that this way it should be easyer to manage my hdd and in case I delete something for error I will still be able to recover it.
- Every partition will be BTRFS since I read on Github that OMV5 maybe will drop the support to ext4;
This will be the final configuration:
- SSD: 20GB BTRFS for OMV
- SSD: 20GB BTRFS for setting (this way even if I'll need to format OMV I will keep them)
- SSD: 12GB BTRFS swap for hibernation
- HDD 4TB1: BTRFS this will the main 4TB
- HDD 4TB2: BTRFS every night at 2am a job will sync from 4TB1 to 4TB2 so that 4TB2 is an exact copy of 4TB1
- HDD 6TB1 and 2 exactly like the 4TB
What do you think? Do you have any suggestion? Do you think that the sync job is a bad idea compared to RAID1 or ZFS Mirror?