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Time to show off my new system. honestly a bit overboard for me but don't want to have to do much with it for a while
 
case supermicro 36 3.5" bay 4u  CSE-847E16-R1K28LPB
MOBO also supermicro X9DRH-iF
Processor 2 Intel Xeon E5-2660 V1 @ 2.2GHz 8-core 16 threads each
Memory is 128GB ddr3 ecc memory
HBA is a LSI 9211-8i
1280W redundant power supply PWS-1K28P-SQ
 
still breaking her in but I'm sure my "linux isos" will love their new home.
I have a 2tb red drive for downloads before being copied to my pool, my pool has snapraid 2 drive parity using 2 wd red 8tb i shucked from best buy.  the data array is 4 8tb seagate archive drives, a 4tb hgst desktar nas drive, 2 4tb wd red and 2 3tb wdred.  home internet is 1gb/250mb fiber optic.  running radarr, sonarr, deluge, sabnzbd, and plex on it.  got some plans for virtualizing a home lab to play around to pick up some IT skills to complement my Computer Science degree

I currently have a pool with duplication in light of the fact i now have a local backup and a remote backup i'd like to get rid of duplication and clear up some space.  how do i do this without messing up do i just undo the duplication in settings and run balancing or what?  remeasuring the pool doesn't seem to do it

was wondering if this had nfs support.  also see windows file share listed. is that samba?

as far as knowing what was on each drive what i do is i have the individual drives mounted in a drives folder and have a script scheduled weekly to run tree on that folder and output it to a text file with the date of the backup in the filename on my google drive folder  that way if the unthinkable happens and multiple drives fail i can still see what was on each drive even if the comp is completely dead

nice personally i just tree to a txt file in the google drive folder but i script it like yours.
 
edited because i thought I might as well share what is in my script in case anyone prefers text files.  i have that folder regularly backed up to goodle drive.  i happen to like the format but yeah the fancier format allows some nice things to.  I run it weekly as a 80mb file is not insignificant
 
I just do the folders currently because else it becomes huge.  been thinking about moving it off the ssd though and if i do i will make it do to files at a time.  one with the files because trying to go through the entire structure with files is a bit intimidating honestly and hard to glance through
 
$date = (Get-Date -format "yyyy-MM-dd") tree C:\Drives > "C:\Users\Administrator\Documents\Trees\trees-$date.txt"

not missing your other points but he said other than for databases.     I'm hopeful though that a media server will be not so write intensive to be a big deal but i got my 2nd paycheck today so have ordered the parts for this server will try the 8tb in a future expansion perhaps but for now i'm happy.  i had a few more family members say they would want access to the plex server so i went ahead and got an i5-4590.  my father decided that since a few family members wanted access he would pay the difference to upgrade it so it could handle an additional transcode or 2