Extremely new to TrueNAS; need guidance on configuration of TrueNAS Mini-X

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Hello! I’m looking for a bit of guidance and I’m hopeful the community can point me in the right direction. I am moving away from an old Plex setup with Gen8 HPE Microserver running ESXi to a NAS-centric media server. I was looking at just running things like Plex, Sonarr, Radarr, NZBGet, maybe UniFi controller as dockers versus VMs.

I’ve been looking at the TrueNAS Mini-X+, 8 core 64GB RAM, 2xSFP+, populate the five 3.5" drives with 22TB drives. I’m unsure of what to do with the 2.5" bays - would I be better suited to put SSDs in or elect to get the Read and Write cache, based on my use case which is predominately, a Plex media center.

Is there something that I’m not considering as to why I would want to avoid the pre-configured chassis and drives from TrueNAS? Is this something that someone else out there has already done and I can follow your lead? :slight_smile:

Thanks!
Brian

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It’s highly unlikely either of these (especially the “write cache” that isn’t) would be beneficial for this use case.

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You list a bunch of apps, mirrored VDEV & pool of SSDs for the Apps.

Raid-Z2 for the 5 x 22TB drives, unless you have superb backups and can just restore you data quickly, then Raid-Z1 could be okay

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Hey Dan! Thanks for the information - apologies for the simplistic questions, I freaking hate being the new guy. So, for my use case as a media center (mostly Plex), I take it that there is no benefits to the read/write caches. Good to know! What would you use the 2.5" bays for - just SSDs?

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Hey SmallBarky - ok, so you’re saying ditch the read/write cache in favor of just some SSDs for the Apps then. I like it. Raid-Z2 for the spinning disks - unless killer backups, then Z1. Check! This is super helpful, thank you!