zfs

Hello everyone! I was kindly given a Fujitsu server 'Primergy RX300 S8' with 256GB ECC RAM by a colleague at work, as he had been fired. Now, in addition to the server, I've got 16 SAS disks and the additional controllers, which I'm considering flashing into IT mode in order to partially...

Apologies in advance, as I think I can be a bit verbose... I have some hardware sitting around doing jack and I think it's time I put it to good use... I've got a Dell T430 Dual Xeon v4 I got from a company that got rid of their old equipment (forget which model exactly but it's 14 cores 28...

I have a Proxmox system running a bunch of VMs, one of which is a FreeBSD guest that runs my main storage zpools. The Proxmox host has ~20Tb of flash in two different flash based zpools, as well as the root pool which is served by 4x optane 118gb drives. I was thinking of passing through some...

Does anyone know of a way to force ZFS to run at a lower CPU priority? Im not serving files or anything. I just use ZFS as a bulk drive for all my random stuff, I have compression enabled. GZIP-9. it has saved me over a full TB of storage so im keen to keep it on. But it does cause a issue as...

I'm a happy TruNAS user who is migrating an old 5400rpm based server over to an all NVMe system, and I had a couple of questions around structuring the pool and selecting record sizes. I've done some searching online and the guidance varies quite a bit so I'm turning to all of you in hopes that...

Good morning, I am in the process of building a new ZFS Jellyfin media server. So far I have purchased a Fractal Design Meshify 2 XL and 4x 14TB Exos X18 Drives. I need a motherboard, GPU, CPU, RAM, PSU and case fan recommendations. I have been trying to determine the optimal solution without...

Has anyone done a benchmark / comparison / benefits analysis of these two options below? I'm looking to centralize all my VM storage to a NAS (currently all VMs are in each cluster node local-zfs storage) Primarily looking for: * Improved disk space savings via deduplication, since central NAS...

Hello everyone, I recently purchased an ASRock N100M motherboard with the following setup in mind: Use an ASM1166 M.2 to 5x SATA adapter to connect 4 SATA drives. Attach 2x 240GB SSDs directly to the motherboard over SATA. Install Proxmox as a bootable RAIDZ set on the 4 SATA drives. Add the 2...

I'm trying to fix up a couple of old Lenovo x3650 M5 servers for storage servers (primarily for video). The hardware RAID (ServeRAID M5210 with 4GB cache and BBU) seems to do a great job of obtaining high sequential read/write performance to a RAID5 with 5 drives, but I've obtained better random...

Hi all, I'd really appreciate some advice on choosing a motherboard & CPU for my 'new' Proxmox server with a budget of around £350/$470 for those two components. I am happy to buy refurbished gear (I am based in the UK). I am currently running an old Dell T7610 (2 x E5-2630 v2; 128GB ECC RAM)...

Hi all, I am planning a build which is currently configured to have 4x 12TB HDDs (HDD- HUH721212ALE601), and 2x 4TB Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus M.2, and 768GB RAM. I would like to configure the server such that it uses ZFS RAIDZ-1 and caching to leverage the super fast M.2. I should mention MOBO is a...

System Host - Proxmox 8.3.1 EPYC 7302p Supermicro H11SSL-i 128GB ECC DDR4 3200 118GB Optane system drive VM - TrueNAS SCALE 23.10 8 cores 64GB RAM Passthrough - EPYC SATA #1 - HDDs Passthrough - NVMe drives Drives HDD 10TB HGST 7200RPM SATA - HUH721010ALE601 SSD 1TB Samsung 970 Evo Plus...

I recently purchased a used R730xd LFF 12-bay (3.5”x 12 bay backplane) that I have installed Proxmox on and plan to use for some VMs (Emby/Jellyfin/Plex/Docker, etc, experimenting) and ZFS storage. Basically doing compute and storage with this until and it's a sandbox until I get a feel for what...

Hey team! Here is what I have as my current setup: Dell R620:HBA->NetApp. Running the TrueNAS Scale on a bare metal, a whole bunch of containers, managed by Portainer. CoreDNS, Traefik and all the good stuff. The capacity tier is on NetApp in a ZFS pool. It runs couple backup tasks to Google and...

Hi, so I am planning to upgrade my homelab to 10GBe and want to move my VM storage from my ESXi host to my TrueNAS Scale host. I am planning to make a new pool comprised of older Enterprise Sata SSDs, since I want the VMs to be as responsive as possible and saturate the 10G link. I will also...

I moved a ZFS pool to another server. Pool imported with no errors using # zpool import pool0 pool0 contains both encrypted and unencrypted logical units. Encryption keys were restored to /local/keydata on the new server (plus a copy on another location). Unencrypted LU's were imported...

I have a homelab rack setup with a few servers and my HDD NAS server is having an odd issue and I can't easily pinpoint if the issue is the controller, the slot, or the HDD itself. Problem The same HDD in drive bay 1 will be removed from the system. I don't see it drop in system logs but I see...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/145146668977 Seller accepts $55. Spec sheet: https://www.radianmemory.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/RMS-200-Data-Sheet-ver-1-7.pdf Keep in mind that there are super capacitors on the card that's rated for 5 years (not entirely clear if the number of charge/discharge...

I've decided to make the jump from HDDs to SSDs for my main storage and now i'm wondering if I needed to buy the backplane that bought. I have a supermicro CSE-846 24 bay case and it had the BPN-SAS2-846EL1 backplane. Right now I'm using 20 3tb spinning rust sas drives but I have bought 20 2tb...

Hello, I'm trying to migrate from tiered Windows Storage Spaces volume where I have 2 HDD's (3TB and 4TB) in a slow tier and a 512GB SSD in a fast tier. Windows is, and TrueNAS will be, virtualized with disks connected to a passed-through HBA. Performance is fairly important as I have VM's that...