M.2 ssd support

[SavageAUS]

I plan on replacing my M.2 intel 240Gb drive in my desktop pc with a NVME drive and was wondering what could be a use case for the M.2 on my server? Yes I have 1 M.2 slot on my board.


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[kdragon75]

Yes it will work just like any other block device. How do you plan to use it? It won't magically make your system faster. In most cases, a SLOG or L2ARC are not helpful and can even slow things down. We would need the exact parts of your system, exact configurations and uses of your datarsets.
I see your hardware listed as:

FreeNAS-11.2-Beta3
Gigabyte MX31-BS0
Intel Xeon E3-1230 v5 @ 3.40GHz
32G Kingston DDR4 2133 ECC Unbuffered
Corsair 80+ Gold CS450M
Fractal Design Define R5
6 x 1tb wd black Raidz2
2 x 240Gb SSD Jails

Is this current?

 

[SavageAUS]

Yes this is current except PSU which doesn’t matter. My use case is home storage with Plex, sonarr, radarr, transmission. Normally only 1 stream at a time. My system to me is quite quick is it as it I was asking if there was a way for me to use this spare M.2 drive for any purpose, better than it collecting dust.


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[kdragon75]

The only thing you might use it for is a torrent pool to prevent fragmentation on your main pool. Based on what you have said, you would see no gains with is as a L2ARC or SLOG.

 

[SavageAUS]

The only thing you might use it for is a torrent pool to prevent fragmentation on your main pool. Based on what you have said, you would see no gains with is as a L2ARC or SLOG.

Yeah then I could move my downloads off my JailsSSD to its own drive. Thanks for you input.


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