What did you all waste money on for your homelabs this holiday discount season? I snagged a rosewill 4u case for $80 on Newegg. Currently my NAS is a guest in a ryzen based proxmox host in a silverstone case with a ton of 3.5 bays. Gonna move an older supermicro server mobo into that silverstone case and make it a dedicated bare metal NAS that I’ll probably only run a few hours a month, and then build a “new” game/vm server with the ryzen parts in the rosewill case. That way I can run my more demanding stuff without also having to power a bunch of spinning rust all the time. Yes the ~70 watts for 24/7 HDD’s nags at me that much; don’t try to tell me how long it will take me to make my $80 back 😂
What projects did y’all find for yourselves?
I read somewhere about larger drives not being well suited for zfs pools, because of the amount of maintenance activity on that storage scheme it takes longer to do on larger drives, and they take a lot longer to replace/resilver if a drive needs to be replaced.
I’m still going with 18tb drives in my zfs pool though 🤷🏻♂️
Honestly I feel like the people on the truenas and openzfs forums are chronic over-optimizers. When they say you MUST use small drives and NEVER spin them down and ALWAYS use ECC ram… I take it with a grain of salt. Trust that multi-disk redundancy with raidz2
That’s said my ZFS arrays are all 3 and 4tb drives just because I built my first NAS 10 years ago and most of the og drives are still in there.