NicholasJS
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- Mar 18, 2022
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So, it's a long story but I had a bunch of Intel 960gb D3-S4510s dropped on me with some Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1Tb drives.
I've pawned off a bunch of them and now I have 2 of the D3s and one evo left.
I've been thinking of what to do with these and I think that the correct answer is "put them in a different system" but I'm wondering if there may be better things I can do with them. My system is pretty much already overkill.
My general workload is storing some customer data here and there, file sharing and streaming using plex, hosting a minecraft server for some friends and their kids, and doing some VM things for testing purposes, usually with SQL Server (proofs of concept, not data heavy) or something in Linux. I wouldn't call anything I do IO heavy and my cache hit rate with 128 gb of ram is generally > 90. I'm always >90gb of ARC.
Currently, my options appear to be, for the D3s
Use the 2x D3s as metadata drives for my main pool, which is 64tb in 16 gb drives with Z2. This seems kind of unnecessary because I don't seem to have much metadata that doesn't just get cached in ARC so I would effectively create more risk for minimum benefit.
Replace the SSDS (2x mirrored 512gb 860 EVOs) I use for my VMs, jail settings and system pool with the D3s. Seems like a waste, the pool is usually pretty static.
Add the D3s as a separate pool and do ? with them.
Evo:
Stripe it and copy my music library to it for plex so all of that music just gets instantly accessed.
1TB L2ARC for data or metadata and bask in the sub 10% hit rate. This would reduce ARC from what I understand.
Another thing I could do is just experiment and see what happens. I already have the hardware I just don't have the time right now.
Any suggestions would be appreciated, even silly things that would be interesting to try out but aren't supported, so long as they won't brick my pool. I have backups but it would be a pain to pull them.
Thanks!
I've pawned off a bunch of them and now I have 2 of the D3s and one evo left.
I've been thinking of what to do with these and I think that the correct answer is "put them in a different system" but I'm wondering if there may be better things I can do with them. My system is pretty much already overkill.
My general workload is storing some customer data here and there, file sharing and streaming using plex, hosting a minecraft server for some friends and their kids, and doing some VM things for testing purposes, usually with SQL Server (proofs of concept, not data heavy) or something in Linux. I wouldn't call anything I do IO heavy and my cache hit rate with 128 gb of ram is generally > 90. I'm always >90gb of ARC.
Currently, my options appear to be, for the D3s
Use the 2x D3s as metadata drives for my main pool, which is 64tb in 16 gb drives with Z2. This seems kind of unnecessary because I don't seem to have much metadata that doesn't just get cached in ARC so I would effectively create more risk for minimum benefit.
Replace the SSDS (2x mirrored 512gb 860 EVOs) I use for my VMs, jail settings and system pool with the D3s. Seems like a waste, the pool is usually pretty static.
Add the D3s as a separate pool and do ? with them.
Evo:
Stripe it and copy my music library to it for plex so all of that music just gets instantly accessed.
1TB L2ARC for data or metadata and bask in the sub 10% hit rate. This would reduce ARC from what I understand.
Another thing I could do is just experiment and see what happens. I already have the hardware I just don't have the time right now.
Any suggestions would be appreciated, even silly things that would be interesting to try out but aren't supported, so long as they won't brick my pool. I have backups but it would be a pain to pull them.
Thanks!