Suggestions for consolidating my storage

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devin_mm

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My current storage situation is multiple synology units; I am thinking of selling all of the units off and migrating them over to JBOD TrueNAS/vSAN setup.

The units I am looking at getting rid of are the following:
DS3018xs/DX1215
RS10613xs+/RX1213sas
RS10613xs+/RX1213sas

I have a total of 62 spinning (18 SATA, 44 SAS), 4 SSD cache disks.
My goal is to consolidate my disks into a couple chassis if at all possible but this is going to be stuck in a rack that is 6 feet beside the desk I work at so I would like the noise to be manageable. I find one of the RS10613/RX1213 chassis to be loud so if I can get quieter that would be great.
 

devin_mm

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How much storage is that in total? And how much is in use?
256TB RAW in production (88TB offline), current formatted storage is 184.8TB with 93.4TB in use.

12x10TB
6x 8TB
44x 4TB
4x 1TB (Cache)
 
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i386

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Okay, this is what I would do (with unlimited budget):

1x supermicro 846b chassis (the revision b is important, it allows to use two 2.5" hotwasp bay in the back) with sq psus and sas2 or sas3 expander
24x 10TByte hdds in raid 6/raidz-2
2x sas ssds mounted in the back

The chassis can hold all the hdds & ssds, comes with fans that are audible but not "loud", decent quality.
The 24 hdds will give you about 200 TByte capacity and you could reuse your 10TB hdds

Alternative:
1x supermicro 826b with sas2/3 expander, sq psus
12x 18TByte hdds in raid 6/raidz-2
2x sas ssds

This setup would be probably very quiet (least amount of hdds), save power and generate less heat. Downside: you would need new 18TB hdds to get ~170 TB capacity...
 
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