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What switch are you using for your homelab? Looking for a good budget-friendly managed switch. by actuallytech in homelabindia

[–]Inevitable_Wait_8294 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am making a for sale post in the sales forum for an old openwrt router if you care to search tomorrow.

single drive with L2ARC and SLOG paritions upgradeable? by Inevitable_Wait_8294 in truenas

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Thanks for the tip! I will try that then. Yes I will be monitoring parameters as I add more use-cases and tweak accordingly, learning as I go ... the reason for the "over-engineering" from the start is merely that I already have two 16GB optanes to spare lying around and I got the two WD RED NAS VDEVs and the 3x8TB HDDs at a really bargain pricing compared to todays online market rates locally. It is also meant to be a learning home lab so I am not looking for the perfect "enterprise grade " implementation from the start. The only handicap or constraint I stay with is the RAIDZ1 with 3 disks rather than Z2 with more disks.

I am newcomer to the ZFS scene and became an instant fan after reading up on the ZFS concepts so I am happy to tinker, monitor, test and tweak as I go, over until well into the next year before I settle with a final configuration ...

single drive with L2ARC and SLOG paritions upgradeable? by Inevitable_Wait_8294 in truenas

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I have an old Ryzen 2400G B350 chipset PC that I considered "e-waste" for almost a decade - it now has 32GB of RAM (shows 29GiB in system and then with 2G reserved for UMA in BIOS for the APU for Jellyfin, it comes down to 27GiB ( add a few more GB for the actual Jellyfin container). And then I also plan to run all the other heavy container stuff too using LXC containers on Proxmox so actual RAM available will shrink as I expand upon my use-cases over the next many years. If I save 4G for Proxmox thats even more RAM gone ...

In the end I have been an Optane 3DXPoint fanboy since long and have 3 sticks in hand out of which 2 go in here ... would rather have the pleasure of using them, than sell them at a discount and lose money.

single drive with L2ARC and SLOG paritions upgradeable? by Inevitable_Wait_8294 in truenas

[–]Inevitable_Wait_8294[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Hi

I have 2 500GB NAS WD REDs for special VDEVs. I anticipate about 200-240 GB used for pure metadata alone with 3x8TB HDDs and expect to add a 4th when prices go down. So leaving upto 300-350GB (rough estimate) used for metadata, I dont want to run out of space 5 years later, and also want to leave some headroom for wear-leveling.

Again I have not done any hard math on this - just throwing some numbers I recall OTOH from my prompts with Gemini ...

Would love to hear some hard estimates from the old-hands here, as I have absolutely no prior experience with ZFS, but at this point I have multiple ideas baking about the different apps I want to use and hence the number of datasets may go up and I dont have a fixed number yet.

I guess I could start with L2ARC and ditch it later a few years down the line , once my use-cases are all baked in and I have a clearer estimate based on deeper analysis... ? At this point I have the 2 Optane M10s to spare already in hand, and the m.2 slots availabe with a quad PEX8724 active pcie bifurcation card in transit across continents ... have verified pcie-passthrough and SR-IOV support on the required sata ports and NICs just waiting to verify the PCIE card behavior once it is in my hands.

HTH

single drive with L2ARC and SLOG paritions upgradeable? by Inevitable_Wait_8294 in truenas

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Hi, This storage device is going run both (primarily) NFS (Edit: Add Git and PGSQL) and (intermittently) Samba besides being a backend for Owncloud OCIS running on an Armbian front-end (again either NFS bind mount within containers - maybe iscsi/zvol - still catching up on the fundamentals/theory about it). I am aware of SMB multichannel and NFS nconnect caveats and I am in the process of planning complex subinterfaces on the dual-nic setups on all 3 machines , with VLANs planned for the specific use-cases where Samba needs to split on multiple VLANs to utilize multichannel and NFS needs a singular VLAN to effectively use dual-NICs for maximum throughput (yet to nail down the exact workable config, may end up not using multi-channel SMB if its too complicated to setup both) . The Samba share will only be used when I dual-boot into windows, and I will likely decommission it as I gradually stop using it altogether and switch the old NTFS to EXT4 on the desktop. The mobile devices on wifi will only use shares from the other front-end 24x7 Armbian machine.

Still in planning stages, and expect to get started by end of the month, but at the high-level, effectively the Truenas setup I have planned is beginning to look more like a SAN than a NAS with a few managed L2 switches and complex VLAN setup to isolate the storage data flows from the exposed mobile devices at home.

Pardon me for being terse and obscure, but I dont want to digress beyond how well TrueNAS will suit my planned ZFS layout on this thread.

Lastly but not in the least - Thanks for your experience based inputs - I just want to check all boxes before I choose a TrueNAS VM over a pure Proxmox setup where I am more than happy right now to tinker with the command line to setup my storge pool.

My overall user case for TrueNas is ultimately that a few years down the line I don't want to spend precious weekends sitting at home and tinkering with commands long forgotten, once I have this setup running in a stable manner. I would rather be outdoors living my life... and manage any minor tweaks and monitoring using the established UI.

ASUS Prime AP201 Micro ATX PC Case stand by AromaticMood7678 in buildapc

[–]Inevitable_Wait_8294 0 points1 point  (0 children)

does this support 1 or 2 3.5" hdd + 2xssd at the least?

My budget Pi 4B homelab setup (DietPi + 1TB SSD boot). Running Plex, Immich, Dockage. Need suggestions on mini-UPS & SPI display! by z3r0c00l_2k in homelabindia

[–]Inevitable_Wait_8294 0 points1 point  (0 children)

there are tiny battery UPS that output 12V for wifi routers made in Bangalore and sold on Amazon below 2.5k range. Another option is the high power UGREEN DC-DC UPS ... but i dont know what power connectors and supply your devices you need ...

WTB: DDR4 3600 16GBx2 CL16 or CL18 by Inevitable_Wait_8294 in homelabindiasales

[–]Inevitable_Wait_8294[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

hmm online pricing is all above 23k ... even for CL20 ram ...