| I keep it simple. I'm not confident with ZFS terminology, but here goes: I have one TimeMachine Pool: Then a single RAIDZ1 with 5x 4TB external USB3 drives connected via a powered TP-Link hub. I'm aware this is suboptimal on a couple of fronts; • USB Drives • 5x drives in a RAIDZ1 • Standard RAM, not ECC But the drives are what I had, and the 7060 Micro was super cheap ex-lease.
I grabbed cheap used 32GB RAM from a local forum connection. After seven months it's been super reliable, no issues. I run 2x 515GB mirrored USB-C Samsung SSD drives as a VM-Pool, which is where I store my Linux VMs. My Linux VMs run database backups, my Dashy Dashboard, a few Docker containers and general dev-ops experiments. The 7060 itself has 32GB RAM and boots from mirrored 256GB internal SSD/NVME drives. I should probably do a Blog post on the utility of Ex-Lease Dell Micros over going Raspberry Pi or similar. I'm a huge fan :-) |