174TB in the OpenMediaVault NAS - 1054

I am Up to 174TB on the OpenMediaVault NAS, but has run in to the issue of it not doing the disk pool I was dreaming about. I really like the way Windows Storage Pool does it :-/ just throw all the drives in a pool,, and then you make virtual volumes on top of that,, and you decide if a volume needs to be raid 5 or 6 safe or maybe totally unsafe. and the over provisioning is also nice.

So 174TB of free Storage,, what the heck do you put on 174TB ??

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[sobreewaesulong]

My main server uses qumulo with 230 TB of space for animation production. For the second storage I use truenas ZFS 100TB because it can do RAM cache and SSD Cache for save money.

[jamesthepuerilis]

TrueNasCore can pool the drives based on storage i believe.

[GuyForssman]

Hi there, i would very much like you to test MergerFS/UnionFS and Snapraid together in OpenMediavault. These are plugins for OMV..How does it behave. reading/writing speeds and sync/build speed.

[johnkristian]

I have almost about double this in storage space for home use. Can't tell what I'm using it for publicly, but look me up on FB.

[NapierNimbus]

Think having screw driver batteries in series give you more volts (volts of bat A + bat B) so should run faster, but having them in parallel give you volts of one battery hence slower speed, but more amps (torque) so should get higher turning force.

[eDoc]

LVM can do RAID by itself, maybe the option is just not in the Web UI. If you log into the command line you can try a command like this:
lvcreate --type raid6 --stripes 6 --size 10T --name "Test-vol2" "Mega-Store"

This will create a new 10 terabyte logical volume named "Test-vol2" across eight physical drives using RAID6 for redundancy. You can change the values in the command and repeat this to create as many virtual drives as you desire. The system will automatically chose appropriate drives from the pool by itself.

Btw: If you're wondering why this command will use 8 drives even though 6 were specified it is because it does not count the parity drives. For more information check out the appropriate man pages.

[johnkristian]

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[jms]

Have you considered ZFS (so TrueNAS ) but using the copies attribute for redundancy which is set per dataset ? It's definitely not as good as a proper RAIDZ. copies is exposed by the GUI now

[KaidoFujimi]

I would explore TrueNAS. But OMV is a really good solution if you want a fairly entry level turn key situation. I'd probably never fill more than 20TB of that because I don't do anything that would require me to have very large file sizes or that many individual files.

[rdsii]

How do you handle your off site backup with that much data?

[HliasPontioSsS]

good evening, i'm glad to be writing on my favorite channel again after a while. because i remember you have several hard drives i would suggest you try unraid (i was also a synology fan) but you have a limit of up to 30 drives. but also think i have a server that does everything. (vm, docker, media server, openvpn and many more)

[mikeunum]

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[spyninjaeddiestamper]

I use true nas only down side is you need 1gb of ram per TB. I would use it for the videos I make. Can easily fill up a 2TB HD after a weekend of filming.

[howardcallender]

What was your final os. Did you try Proxmox basically you can run anything?

[rhn]

What will I do with that amount storage (at home)?

First, I'll use it as "an intermediate stop" in the way of organizing the data on all my external drives and remote ftp/nas/cloudish servers. After that I'll try different things and will try to either blow my electricity bill or blow some of the drives. :D

Maybe I'll run a zip bomb, just to see how long it will take to fill all that space. :D :D :D

[turbo]

Based on what you described I don't think unraid is what you are looking for either. Unraid builds a giant pool and you can use mixed drives but your largest drives have to always be your 1 or 2 redundancy drives. Unraid does this by not striping the data across the array and instead writing to one disk at a time. You can control where stuff writes and how much storage it is allowed but all the "Redundancy" is handled underneath that. Plus as other's have mentioned even with the pro license you are limited to 30 drives total. What you are talking about is something that I believe LVMs in linux could handle, but I have no experience with that personally so I might be wrong.

[linkinpark]

What trays did you use? I have netapp shelf that id like to do the same too

[scooterjes]

174tb would be good for a media server like Plex and as general storage for all the PC's on the network, would also be good for a NVR too. I currently have a 21tb array(12x2tb) pooled using Drivebender.

[philsbbs]

use it as a backup backup server i.e all your backups from all the servers etc also get backed up there as a backup backup i.e you know if your lookimg for a file and not sure what server its on at least you could use it from there as a short term use and replace the master copy etc.

[davidnickel]

if you mount the filesystem in open media vault I was able to use a drive with data on it. unraid sounds like what you want. omv is just an opensource none bsd nas/vm/docker system based on the bones of good old Debian.