As the subject suggests, I am moving from Core to Scale and taking the opportunity to rationalize my datasets.
New Scale will have (at least) two pools, one on 8 x 12Tb spinning disks and one on 2 x 1TB nvme disks (on dual M.2 card).
My current pool / dataset structure has grown over time and is a bit of a mess …
- FreeNAS - general stuff about FreeNAS including bash scripts
- General - stuff
- iocage - cages (obviously won’t be moving this)
- Manuals - d/l manuals for the stuff we own (toaster, fridge, washing machine, motherboards, computer cases, cars, etc)
- Music
- Pictures
- Software
- PlexMedia - plex movies and tv shows
- PlexMetaData - plex meta data
- RecordedTV
- MacFiles - files for the household mac users
- TimeMachine - mac timemachine backup
- Temp - temp
- TempDump - more temp
- TempDVD - temp for ripping DVDs
I am thinking of heading in this direction …
- Shares - [spinning] windows (not datasets) folders under this for manuals, music, pictures, software, etc
- Plex Media - [spinning] Movies and TV Shows
- Plex Meta Data - [nvme]
- Macs - [spinning] for macs
- Temp - [spinning] temp (dvd ripping, recorded tv, MCEBuddy transcribing, etc)
- TrueNAS - [nvme] scripts, backups and what not
Any thoughts or comments? Do I have the split between pool location (spinning / nvme) appropriate?
I also have a spare NVMe slot on my motherboard (X11SPI-TF) that I don’t know what to do with … any suggestions?