Currently not really having any issues, but I do have a dilemma that’s I was hoping some more intelligent than I could offer some proper guidance on.
Originally I had a single 16GB USB Cruzer running freenas and I have since added an additional mirror after seeing some weird read errors. I thought that this should help me keep some uptime. However I have been reading that due to the increase read/writes to the system, USB dongles are no longer the ideal or preffered method. However i have some issues with changing this...
However I really dont want to consume two of these for a freenas boot drive. Seems a bit ridiculous. So it seems I have three options?
FreeNAS-11.3-U2.1
X10SDV-6c+
24GB ECC Ram
6x 3TB WD Reed
Originally I had a single 16GB USB Cruzer running freenas and I have since added an additional mirror after seeing some weird read errors. I thought that this should help me keep some uptime. However I have been reading that due to the increase read/writes to the system, USB dongles are no longer the ideal or preffered method. However i have some issues with changing this...
- All of my SATA drives are currently consumed (6x 3TB WD Red drives)
- I have a single PCI x16 available
- I woulda also like to add some storage for VMs over a 10GB Network Cat6 setup
- Currently I have a local NVMe slot with a 512GB drive, and a single M.2 SSD (non NVMe) in a mirrored fashion for this. These are the parts I had so I tried it.
However I really dont want to consume two of these for a freenas boot drive. Seems a bit ridiculous. So it seems I have three options?
- Keep the dual, mirrored USB sticks and just replace them as they go bad.
- Purchase USB SSD Enclosure and plop in a small Intel SSD into these.
- Eat up 2 NVMe slots for the OS boot drive (I would have 3 remaining).
FreeNAS-11.3-U2.1
X10SDV-6c+
24GB ECC Ram
6x 3TB WD Reed