Hi-
I’m moving from a fleet of older mini PCs + Synology 918+ to a Dell T640 with 8 bays. I’m planning to run Proxmox with a TrueNAS in a well-resourced VM and full hardware pass through of the HBA330. Boot is from a 2.5” ssd that is directly to sata on motherboard.
Question-
Option A) 4x4tb + 4x16tb in a single zfs volume with mirrors (40tb usable, but upgrade is a pain because I have to swap all 8 drives to bigger to upgrade as I understand it)
Option B) primary drive is 4x4tb in mirrors (8tb usable, good performance, cheap to source a dune if I get a failure) and snapshots/plex on 3x16tb in zraid + 1x16tb as hot spare (32tb usable, single drive fault tolerance, poorer performance)
Option C) something else I’m not thinking of.
Definitely welcome any thoughts/help! I’m way out of my depth!