Are these speed tests still accurate?

TrueNAS General
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Trying to decide to use UNRAID or TrueNAS. I’ve already tested UNRAID and not happy with the JBOD (XFS) being their default install. I don’t need advanced features of ZFS since I’m using only as data storage (movies, pictures, backups) and repo for plex movies.

Should I be testing TrueNAS-13.0-U6.7 or TrueNAS-SCALE-24.10.2. I’m leaning toward Core because of the speed tests of @Vineesh but would like to know if the results on the below thread 101058 are still accurate after 2 years of updates. https://-truenas.com/community/threads/truenas-scale-vs-core.101058/

Now with all this begin said, what do you think is better? UNRAID or TrueNAS and why?

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I doubt those speed tests are relevant 2 years later, but I don’t have any numbers to back that up and am not going to test.

Would you be accessing these files over a 5gbit or faster network?

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standard home 1G network

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You have to expect that the answers here are going to be biased in favor of TrueNAS. If you don’t want ZFS, though, you don’t want TrueNAS, because ZFS is all it uses.

As to which version, CORE is (mostly) dead, and iX has been recommending SCALE for new deployments for years.

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With a 1gbit network, the network is going to be the bottleneck, not the filesystem. Speed probably shouldn’t be a deciding factor in what you go with, above all else.

I typically recommend Unraid to home users that don’t see any value in what ZFS offers. Unraid is slower than ZFS if speed really is important to you – but still your network will ultimately slow down any network file access. However, if you lose more disks than you have parity for, you can still pull data off the surviving drives. Another benefit is being able to mix and match drive sizes.

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IMO there are three advantages unraid has over truenas:

  1. Unraid can mix different disk sizes in the same array and still get the total size and are not reduced to the size of the smallest disk
  2. Tiered Storage (copy data to ssd and automatically move it to spinning rust)
    and that its not required that all disks are on all the time because data is not
    spread acros disks (as far as i understood it)
  3. Unraid can work with smr disks (as long as you don’t use zfs)

But what i’ve seen from youtube videos, and my very brief test 3 years ago, Truenas has the better webui and with the switch to docker, mostly the same capabilities regarding apps and docker.

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I have four 4TB in the array and two 2TB as parity. I also have four 256 SSD’s as cache. If UNRAID uses high water allocation it fills up each disk before moving to the next. If this is the case, then do i need 4 parity if I have 4 in the array?

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I’m not against ZFS and I appreciate all responses, even if they are biased. So you say Scale over Unraid?

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I say SCALE over CORE, for sure. I can’t really speak to Unraid, so it’s harder for me to make a comparison there, but TrueNAS is obviously where I landed.

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i’m gonna ask a huge favor here since i’m not getting what i need from the unraid forum. how do i configure a pool in zfs so the cache and array work together?