Building new NAS

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Hello everyone. First of all i am sorry if i have put wrong this new topic here. If it is let me know the correct place.

I am planing to build a NAS for home. Place i can put my files without worrying that i will loose them. I need little help with some of my questions.
My hardware will be:

  • RYZEN 3200G
  • MSI A520M-A PRO
  • DRR4 F4-3000C16D-16GISB
  • CX550 PSU
  • 256GB NVME for the OS
  • 2x22TB HDDs

For start i will put 2 hard drives is RAID 1 pool. So my questions is:

  1. Is there any problem if i don’t have a ECC RAM ?? I am planing to have a software who will do the copy and to check integrity of the files at the end.
  2. Do i need a cache drive ??
  3. When i will need more drives i just connect them, make a new pool and i am ok ??
  4. I heard that when i will finish the installation i will export the settings of the pools and i can change the entire hardware parts (no the drives) put the original drives back import the settings file and i am good to go ??
  5. If a drive fails is possible to connect the drive to another PC and see the files of the drive or i need to put a same size drive and the truenas take care of the copy the files to the new drive??

Please if is possible the answers as simple as possible :sweat_smile::sweat_smile:
Thank you again for your time.

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Is you NAS going to be the second place you store all your files (2nd copy) or are you using it as primary storage (1st copy, only copy)

We all want more that one copy of your data in more than one location. If your TrueNAS machine gets destroyed, did you just lose all your data?

I am guessing you mean your plan is to mirror the 2x 22TB HD as your main pool. Mirror is a copy of the data on each HD in the mirror. If you needed more space, you get two choices. Replace each HD one at a time with a larger model and allow TrueNAS to resilver that data. (22TB replaced with 44TB drives) or you would add in another pair of mirrored HD in another VDEV

main pool
VDEV0
2x 22TB HD
VDEV1
2x 22TB HD

Link for basics so you use the terms when asking questions

BASICS

iX Systems pool layout whitepaper

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It will be my only copy.
Probably yeah RIP files if destroyed. I have all my files in external 2.5 inch drives so if those die lost my files :pensive:.
I will add UPS for some protection.
Exactly, the drives will be mirror of each other 2 drives 22TB each.
Add new drives is the go.
My goal is the server to run around 9 hours every day so only when i am home to run or even not at all some days.

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ECC adds a extra layer of data protection, and depending where you live, used ECC ram can be gotten for a decent price.

Also, 16GB of ram is a bare minimum, so more the better, but you likely dont need epic performance.

As for data gone…do you not wish to use any cloud services to store at least your important data?

Or what you could do it still use those USB drives and once a month or so, copy over important data to those.>

Think in the scenario your house is on fire and you had to run out the door, can you quickly grab your NAS with all your important files? Or a little USB drive…