Hi guys,
it has been some time since I did my custom NAS to get rid of my old qnap 212: RE: Need advise planning new NAS
Since then, I can only say I am very very happy with my NAS and cant complain on anything Specs:
Case: Lian LiPC-08
Board: Asrock J3455 with Celeron J3455 and 8GB RAM
HDDs: 4x4TB ST4000VN000-1H41 + 128GB Patriot Scorch M2
As now, I have the OMV OS installed and running 24/7 on the Patriot Scorch NVMe SSD wich is plugged into the single PCIE 3.0 slot with a simple adapter with ext4. I build a ZFS RAID with the HDD Storage (thanks to diego you can read up my first post why) with one pool mirrored on 2 drives each, kind of like raid10.
Now on one hand I saw OMV 0.5 released but upgrade does not seem that simple. On the other hand a mate just gifted me a Samsung 256GB mSATA SSD and I already have another Patriot 60GB SATA SSD. Since I let the ZFS drives idle most of the time because of power consumption and let downloads run on the NVMe root drive and move them onto the ZFS dataset after finish you can imagine that sometimes i am out of / space pretty fast sometimes.
That is why I plan to move away from my single NVMe OMV installation. My plan is to use the only single PCIe port of the mainboard for a 6-Port SATA controller:
https://de.aliexpress.com/item…t.0.0.18ff3c00PaEbY8&mp=1
connect all small SSDs to that (if neccessary with adapter) build a LMV of these for OMV 0.5 so I am able to attach/detach easily in future, maybe use 2 ports of the sata controller for ZFS expansion or seperate backup drive in the future. I dont have any experience with rebuilding the ZFS drives onto the new OMV installation, how to do that?
Let me know what you guys think about that plan.