I am running an Asus W680 and I’m using the three on board m.2 slots with three Seagate 530 4tb in a raidz1. What configuration is everyone running for applications?
2x480GB 2.5 SSDs (mirror). One is kingston a400 (crap) and the other is samsung 870 evo (it’s actually 500GBs).
The system is in my signature.
Have 1 KINGSTON FURY Renegade NVMe 500Gb, but the data/configs for the Apps i have a dataset on main pool that is in a Mirror Vdev.
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A pair of m.2 SSDs mirrored, with the app data also on that pool.
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How much storage is everyone using in their apps pool? I worry about the long term storage needs for plex with the metadata.
“RAID10” equivalent with 8 x 118GB Optane m.2
I think I can only reply with Hly Sht! Is all that storage personal or some business related?
Sounds scary but it’s just 472GB 
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Only 472tbs of storage…what a slacker!
Applications Pool? What is that?
Just the one and only pool, nothing special as I have nothing special running, Tailscale and Scrutiny.
It’s obviously the pool on which the apps live, but I suspect you were being facetious. But it points to an interesting change with SCALE vs. CORE (or FreeNAS): with the advent of SCALE, it’s become increasingly-strongly recommended to put apps on a SSD pool. What isn’t clear to me is whether there’s something inherent in SCALE’s implementation that makes this a stronger preference than it would have been in CORE, whether decreasing SSD prices are driving it, or some other reason.
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Quoting from an old comment (Tripping at the first hurdle with new Apps in Electric Eel - pool selection - #4 by DjP-iX)
It was discovered in 23.10 and 24.04, with the previous apps implementation, that users hosting their apps pool on spinning disks were far more likely to develop a few different issues that led to their app service failing. Due to their faster speed and resilience for repeated read/writes, flash storage was more robust when it came to hosting the apps pool.
Docker is a lighter apps back end than k3s was, so we don’t expect this to be as much of an issue in the new apps system, but we decided to leave the recommendation in as a general best practice.
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Of course I was. I was a little bored preparing for a week long visit, emphasis on “long” to visit my son and his family. Don’t get me wrong, love them all but an entire week and my son is still working. Not all quality time.