Newbie Pool Recommendation

[SmallBarky]

@surootey

I want to build a rather beefy NAS. Primarily for storing 4k videos and need to be able to handle a good 10 streams. May also run a few iscsi shares for VMs

Reading or Writing speeds? Block storage, aim for under 50% pool usage.

BASICS

ZFS Primer

iX Systems pool layout whitepaper

TrueNAS Comprehensive Solution Brief and Guides

Special VDEV (sVDEV) Planning, Sizing, and Considerations

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…