Apps pool, just asking about best practice/recommendation

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Hello all,

I’m new around here. Running Scale, 24.10.1.

My system’s MB has six sata ports, all of which are occupied by 8TB drives which I named the incredibly creative “pool1”. I also have two nvme slots, both filled with 256GB drives, which I decided to do a mirror boot pool thing when I initially installed TrueNAS. So, if you don’t count some USB ports, all my drive spots are filled on my motherboard.

My apps are on my huge pool with the platter drives.

I’ve seen a lot of “how do I” threads about partitioning the boot drives to move apps to them, and how that’s not supported, and some surrounding debate around that. Since I’m so much of a beginner and am learning as I go here, I really don’t want to delve into unsupported territory.

Would I be better off making my boot pool just the one drive and making the other SSD drive my apps drive? Would I be best to just leave things as they are?

I’d appreciate any insight or direction anyone can offer. Thanks.

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The app pool gets more activity than the boot pool, so there should be a benefit to moving to a single boot device (just keep a copy of the configuration file…) and a single drive SSD app pool (replicate to HDD pool).
To mirror the app pool, put the boot drive in a USB adapter.

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First question, IMHO: better than what? Are you not satisfied with the performance you currently have?

Yes, SSDs are faster than spinning drives, but are your apps “slow”? If everything is running to your satisfaction, why change? Most data is cached in RAM, anyway.

IMHO a separate app pool while nice to have is a micro optimisation that is not really necessary in many scenarios. Geeks tend to do such things :slight_smile: