She liiiives! Installing TrueNAS now, featuring @belee. Filled up the DIMM slots with 192GB :blobcat_thinkingcool: don’t think I need a swap partition, no…
Also she’s actually super quiet! Which is fantastic. No worries about running her in the living room anymore.
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Now please give suggestions on how to set up my storage! I have 10 drive slots (well, 12, but only 10 sleds for now).
I have 5 2TB SSDs, and 10 6TB HDDs.
How do you suggest I set up the storage volumes to have one large slower storage for media and backups, and one smaller high-performance SSD-only storage for virtualised servers? Both with some redundancy and whatever caching is useful.

I’m thinking:
6x 6TB drives in ZFS pool with 1 disk failure readiness
2x 2TB SSD cache for this large disk
2x 2TB SSD in RAID 1 for virtualisation

What do you think?

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@s0 you don't need 4tb of ssd read cache, 100-500gb is sufficient, remember it also gets invalidated on reboots

@sneak I was going for 2TB of read/write cache (because it’s in RAID1 itself).

@s0 oh i assumed you were doing zfs which doesn't have a write cache (unless you are doing synchronous writes which nobody is unless you are running a database)

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