I can’t tell what your experience level is with ZFS so I am posting the following. You will have to consider your performance, storage expansion plans and decide on pool and VDEV layouts.
BASICS
iX Systems pool layout whitepaperhttps://www.truenas.com/solution-guides/#TrueNAS-PDF-zfs-storage-pool-layout/11/
This resource was originally sourced from a Suggestion thread here:
https://forums.truenas.com/t/suggestion-better-svdev-planning-oversight-tools-in-gui/394/
And a link to the Hardware Guide on the old forums. You can download a PDF using the yellow Download button on the upper right side.
This is the latest edition of the FreeNAS Community hardware recommendations guide.
The current major version is R2, dated January 2021, with the last minor update on 2021-01-24.
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