I would do a single ZFS pool with the three drives.
Electric is 35 cents per kWh here
Any downsides or pitfalls I should be aware of before I spend a grand? I know the drives are not stellar for write performance past a point. I know unraid supports trim in pools as well.
Hey everyone. I have a nice unraid server with sas drives and with plex I find that my kids and wife watch the same stuff all the time. I spin down my sas drives to keep power consumption down but at the same time the lag to start them up is annoying as well as I don’t to cause extra wear and tear on the drives by having them spin up and down multiple times a day.
So I was thinking about buying 3x Samsung QVO 8tb drives and firing up a ZFS pool and moving stuff they watch all the time to there. that would speed up reads and reduce wear and tear on the drives.
For backup I rotate externals for critical data every week in and out of my fireproof safe with two 4tb external usb. Our media storage I have a second unraid server that starts up every Saturday and rsyncs from primary and powers off.