So, I’ve been using TrueNAS at work for several years now and just upgraded our network servers and have been gifted the following:
I want to run storage as well as VM’s for various services and I want to eliminate or greatly reduce IO delay.
Looking for recommendations on pool layouts? Should I boot from mirrored SSDs? Use the other SSD in mirrored config for SLOG?
What do you think?
How much does electricity cost where you live?
I (living in Germany) would never run a system with 22 small disk drives and all the other components to hold them. 4 16 TB drives hold more data at a fraction of the power consumption. Smaller case, less cooling, smaller backplane, no separate HBA, so smaller power supply …
Yeah, well electricity isn’t the issue because all of the equipment was gifted to me. The payback in electrical savings to purchase a few large drives would be about 20 years.
Linking so you can make decisions on pool layouts and if you need SLOG
BASICS
iX Systems pool layout whitepaper
Special VDEV (sVDEV) Planning, Sizing, and Considerations
