I currently have two 64TB (80TB RAW) UnRAID storage servers on my network. My UnRAID data drives are 8TB Seagate SMR drives which have been incredibley reliable over the past few years (never lost a drive) but they obviously major limitations with regard to stripped disk pooling solutions. UnRAID has fit my needs for years but now with my continuing to add more and more services and with my network upgrade to 10Gb last year I'm looking for better overall performance. With that in mind, I'm looking at alternative software solutions to UnRAID and in turn, recommendations for data drives to go along with that new solution.
The data I store on my current servers (mirrored) can be summarized as follows:
70% Media
10% Backups
10% Surveillance Data
10% Personal Data
I've recently built a FreeNAS Corral storage server consisting of all SSD's to act as the shared VM datastore for my ESXi cluster. It's been working out quite well I'm happy with it. So FreeNAS (and thus ZFS) is an option I'm considering but certainly open to other alternatives.
As for the data drives, this is where I really need some help. I don't have a ton of cash to drop right now on new drives so for the time being I'll probably just be upgrading one of my UnRAID servers. Even so, I'm still looking for the best bang for my buck.
Would love some suggestions/recommendations.
The data I store on my current servers (mirrored) can be summarized as follows:
70% Media
10% Backups
10% Surveillance Data
10% Personal Data
I've recently built a FreeNAS Corral storage server consisting of all SSD's to act as the shared VM datastore for my ESXi cluster. It's been working out quite well I'm happy with it. So FreeNAS (and thus ZFS) is an option I'm considering but certainly open to other alternatives.
As for the data drives, this is where I really need some help. I don't have a ton of cash to drop right now on new drives so for the time being I'll probably just be upgrading one of my UnRAID servers. Even so, I'm still looking for the best bang for my buck.
Would love some suggestions/recommendations.