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I keep it simple.

I'm not confident with ZFS terminology, but here goes:

I have one TimeMachine Pool:

Then a single RAIDZ1 with 5x 4TB external USB3 drives connected via a powered TP-Link hub.

I'm aware this is suboptimal on a couple of fronts;

• USB Drives

• 5x drives in a RAIDZ1

• Standard RAM, not ECC

But the drives are what I had, and the 7060 Micro was super cheap ex-lease. I grabbed cheap used 32GB RAM from a local forum connection.

After seven months it's been super reliable, no issues.

I run 2x 515GB mirrored USB-C Samsung SSD drives as a VM-Pool, which is where I store my Linux VMs.

My Linux VMs run database backups, my Dashy Dashboard, a few Docker containers and general dev-ops experiments.

The 7060 itself has 32GB RAM and boots from mirrored 256GB internal SSD/NVME drives.

I should probably do a Blog post on the utility of Ex-Lease Dell Micros over going Raspberry Pi or similar. I'm a huge fan :-)



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