Hi,
I am trying to figure out the best setup for torrents. The space needs to be big, at least 2TB and reasonably quick. There are multiple torrent machines using the drives and previously I had issues with my torrent client throttling back because the drives couldn't keep up.
Let me start by saying that I am not a complete idiot. Mind you it cost me. My first big ticket item (~$1000CAD) for home use was an areca ARC-1280ML (24 port, 2Gb RAM, BBU) and I think I had 20*1.5TB drives in RAID6 attached to it. I used the one big array for VM's, media. One of the VM's was setup for torrents. I thought it was the greatest setup in the world until HDD's started failing.
My current torrent setup was primarily a test that I put together using hardware I had laying around the house. 3*3TB WD Green and 4*120GB SSD. Using Storage Spaces the HDD's are setup in a single parity array with the SSD's setup as Journal drives. It's quick enough and as proof of concept it worked out pretty good.
I really like Storage Spaces because if I need to I can move the drives to another machine without issue. I am familiar with Windows and I prefer to stay on that platform. I have looked at about a billion other options and I have spent hours if not days reading through threads on this site. ZFS looks super interesting as does brtfs but in the end ReFS is not bad and it's improving and the stuff I touch at work is exclusively Windows.
My budget is ~$300. I was thinking 2*Optane (32GB M.2) and 2*3TB (HGST referb), in a SS mirror with the Optane drives set as Journal. Thoughts? I was also considering using some referb Intel SSD's in place of the Optane ones. I have a couple of the MyDigitalSSD PBX (NVMe) drives and they have been great, might consider a couple of the 120GB ones in place of the Optane drives.
If you have any helpful ideas or suggestions I would appreciate hearing them. Thanks.
I am trying to figure out the best setup for torrents. The space needs to be big, at least 2TB and reasonably quick. There are multiple torrent machines using the drives and previously I had issues with my torrent client throttling back because the drives couldn't keep up.
Let me start by saying that I am not a complete idiot. Mind you it cost me. My first big ticket item (~$1000CAD) for home use was an areca ARC-1280ML (24 port, 2Gb RAM, BBU) and I think I had 20*1.5TB drives in RAID6 attached to it. I used the one big array for VM's, media. One of the VM's was setup for torrents. I thought it was the greatest setup in the world until HDD's started failing.
My current torrent setup was primarily a test that I put together using hardware I had laying around the house. 3*3TB WD Green and 4*120GB SSD. Using Storage Spaces the HDD's are setup in a single parity array with the SSD's setup as Journal drives. It's quick enough and as proof of concept it worked out pretty good.
I really like Storage Spaces because if I need to I can move the drives to another machine without issue. I am familiar with Windows and I prefer to stay on that platform. I have looked at about a billion other options and I have spent hours if not days reading through threads on this site. ZFS looks super interesting as does brtfs but in the end ReFS is not bad and it's improving and the stuff I touch at work is exclusively Windows.
My budget is ~$300. I was thinking 2*Optane (32GB M.2) and 2*3TB (HGST referb), in a SS mirror with the Optane drives set as Journal. Thoughts? I was also considering using some referb Intel SSD's in place of the Optane ones. I have a couple of the MyDigitalSSD PBX (NVMe) drives and they have been great, might consider a couple of the 120GB ones in place of the Optane drives.
If you have any helpful ideas or suggestions I would appreciate hearing them. Thanks.