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    EU [WTS] (SOLD) 10x Intel Optane SSD DC P5800x 400gb U.2 - NEW

    Hello everyone, I'm long time lurker but first time poster on sales forum. I was able to buy some NEW HP branded Intel Optane SSD DC P5800x 400gb U.2 NVMe disk for my homelab but unfortunately I won't benefit from them in my use case. They spent one day inside my server and have 1-2tb...
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    Ubuntu Server & L2ARC on Same Drives

    I'm looking for some advice on partitioning a new system with multiple disks for root on ZFS with Ubuntu Server 20.04. This is the hardware I have: 2 x Intel D3-S4610 256 GB SSD 4 x Seagate EXOS 7E8 8TB 32 GB ECC RAM (planning of expanding to 64 GB later) In brief, this is what I tentatively...
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    SLOG/L2ARC in Ubuntu w/Docker File-/Media Server

    Hello experts. I'm have recently built a server to be used as file-/media server for myself and a few family members. It will be running on Ubuntu Server with ZFS. I will be using Docker to run quite a few services for serving and streaming. Although I have already built the server I am not...
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    Use Intel P4600 NVMe 2TB as both SLOG and L2ARC

    Hi, We are planning a new virtualization deployment for a customer. Virtualization hosts will be VMware 6.7 and storage array will be a shiny new Lenovo ThinkSystem SR650 which has an Intel P4600 NVMe 2TB (fixed configuraton from our provider, I can't chage that). I'm planning to make 2...
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    Help me refine my multi-headed virtualized workstation

    I want to build One Computer To Rule Them All. I plan to have a multiheaded setup, with one pair of monitors, keyboard + mouse each Windows and Linux, running in VMs. Windows will be used for gaming and graphic art projects, Linux for data science/bioinformatics, so performance is important. I...
  6. TheBloke

    ZFS: Partitioning drives = write cache disabled?

    Hi all I'm hoping to get a high-performance PCI-E SSD to add to my home Solaris 11.3 file server/NAS. Specifically, a 1.2TB LSI Nytro Warp drive. (Forum thread here.) This device is an LSI 2308 with 6 x 200GB SSDs, which by default are configured as a hardware RAID-0. But I believe it is...
  7. TheBloke

    ZFS read caching with SSD: is cache used as well as storage, or instead?

    Hi all I am upgrading my Solaris 11.3 home server/NAS. I have 27 x 2TB SATA3 drives, which will be configured as three 9-drive VDEVs; either 3 x RAIDZ2 or 3 x RAIDZ3, I haven't decided yet. I also plan to add a couple of SSDs for SLOG and read cache, and my question for this thread is about...
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