Difference in SMB Share Behaviour Between CORE and SCALE

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@Constantin

If it helps, have a look at my sVDEV resource page.

You should probably link to it for convenience, it’s a good read.

Special VDEV (sVDEV) Planning, Sizing, and Considerations

This resource was originally sourced from a Suggestion thread here: https://forums.truenas.com/t/suggestion-better-svdev-planning-oversight-tools-in-gui/394/ Why consider a sVDEV? A sVDEV has the potential to significantly speed up the operations of a HDD pool by putting small files and pool metadata into a faster special VDEV (sVDEV), which usually consists of SSDs. You can also designate specific datasets to reside on a sVDEV by setting record size in the dataset configuration page to equal…