Elliot Dierksen
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I am seriously debating replacing the 1GB SATA HDD (aka spinning rust) in my TrueNAS-12.0-U8.1 unit with SATA SSD's. The main workload is as light ESXi NFS datastore. The two drive types I am considering are these:
Western Digital 1TB WD Red SA500 NAS 3D NAND Internal SSD - SATA III 6 Gb/s, 2.5"/7mm, Up to 560 MB/s - WDS100T1R0A ($110 on Amazon)
Seagate IronWolf 125 SSD 1TB NAS Internal Solid State Drive - 2.5 Inch SATA 6Gb/s speeds of up to 560MB/s with Rescue Service (ZA1000NM1A002) ($170 on Amazon)
This is mainly a lab system, but I enjoy experimenting with ways to make it faster that I do apply at work. The current pool is 8 mirrored vdevs of Seagate Constellation 2 (ST91000640NS) with a spare drive and an Intel Optane SLOG. Storage network is 40G with a Chelsio T580 NIC. I don't mind doing the more expensive Seagate drives if there is a good reason to do it. If there isn't a good reason then the WD option would be around $1200 cheaper.
Western Digital 1TB WD Red SA500 NAS 3D NAND Internal SSD - SATA III 6 Gb/s, 2.5"/7mm, Up to 560 MB/s - WDS100T1R0A ($110 on Amazon)
Seagate IronWolf 125 SSD 1TB NAS Internal Solid State Drive - 2.5 Inch SATA 6Gb/s speeds of up to 560MB/s with Rescue Service (ZA1000NM1A002) ($170 on Amazon)
This is mainly a lab system, but I enjoy experimenting with ways to make it faster that I do apply at work. The current pool is 8 mirrored vdevs of Seagate Constellation 2 (ST91000640NS) with a spare drive and an Intel Optane SLOG. Storage network is 40G with a Chelsio T580 NIC. I don't mind doing the more expensive Seagate drives if there is a good reason to do it. If there isn't a good reason then the WD option would be around $1200 cheaper.