Well I haven't actually purchased the server yet for the them as I'm trying to see which ones are financially feasible and that would determine which one to purchase. If you want to know the potential options for the server I can post them if that would help.How many GB or TB ?
Thank you for the reply.Well assuming this is mostly-read-only media files as opposed to VMs and suchlike, and you're really set on SSDs as opposed to platters, combining dirt-cheap MX300/MX500 2TB with a drive pooling technology like unraid would probably be the most cost-effective solution.
If you need 24/7 performance and/or RAID you'll likely need to splurge big on enterprise SSDs.
But in all honesty you need to state your requirements first
The P3605 would be perfect if it didn't require a NVME backplane which would definitely be out of my budget. The size of them would mean I wouldn't have to get a ton of them right away and just add more when the deals are good.Well, anything >1 you really can't use consumers due to the firmware \ garbage collection \ requirement of TRIM.
I would vote for Intel S3500 or Intel S3510 due to price\value There are also great deals on P3605 NVME if you could accommodate a number of those
Not so much about "1" saturating, but at the price you can buy enough tooThe P3605 would be perfect if it didn't require a NVME backplane which would definitely be out of my budget. The size of them would mean I wouldn't have to get a ton of them right away and just add more when the deals are good.
As for the other two, they are interesting and wouldn't completely saturate a 10gb connection. I could also use either a SAS2 or SAS3 backplane.
Maybe I'm slow or just tired but what does the "1" in quotes mean?Not so much about "1" saturating, but at the price you can buy enough too
Which of course also increases performance, %-wise based on your configuration.
Thank you for the reply.
This past weekend I built my wife and I small form factor PCs with only m.2 storage. I want to build a file server to supplement the platters that used to be in our old desktops. She mainly needs it for photos and I need it mainly for documents and other small items that aren't accessed very often.
I don't think UnRaid handles SSDs as an array very well due to the TRIM function or at least that what they say on their wiki page. I currently have an UnRaid box with 12 8tb drives in it serving as my media only storage.
Is that enough for requirements or do you need more?
Okay - why SSDs? If it's just for photos, documents and small items, you are looking at media that will be written to once and read multiple times (if that's even the case). Chances are, unless you run some 10/40Gigabit networking magic (with RDMA or something like that), you wouldn't even feel the effects of faster media overall - 802.11ac traffic for most home users top out at 866mbps, or roughly 100Mbyte/sec - gigabit networking is only marginally faster (and that's assuming good GigE drivers, if you have Realtek GigE your throughput through their meh drivers will be around 60MBytes/sec) - that's around the numbers seen in 7200 rpm mechanical drives. In that case, the drive type doesn't matter too much as much as the ability to have resilience (that's what RAID or datastore redundancy is for). There are no reason to think that SSDs are much more resilient against failures versus HDDs, especially in a homelabs environment (when SSDs die, it's usually their controller either failing outright, or if a series of pages fail and renders the drive effectively useless). Unless you are in an environment where there are plenty of physical shock to the storage media in question (like, you live in a mobile home and do plenty on the road), solid state drive requirements are rather moot.Thank you for the reply.
This past weekend I built my wife and I small form factor PCs with only m.2 storage. I want to build a file server to supplement the platters that used to be in our old desktops. She mainly needs it for photos and I need it mainly for documents and other small items that aren't accessed very often.
I don't think UnRaid handles SSDs as an array very well due to the TRIM function or at least that what they say on their wiki page. I currently have an UnRaid box with 12 8tb drives in it serving as my media only storage.
Is that enough for requirements or do you need more?
Hitting the cache limit? Retail SSD's? You really need enterprise grade SSD's that can suck up whatever you throw at them if you are going to put them in an array, doesn't need to be leading edge blistering fast, just consistent. Intel and HGST would be my go toJust FYI, I have got some performance issues with SSDs in RAID5 or parity Storage Spaces. Write performance was about 30 MB/s. Not sure what was reason, either disks or RAID controller, but please make sure that you are getting reasonable numbers after the deployment.
My understanding of Storage spaces (I just recently looked into this) is that it's aware of the presence or lack of PLP on an SSD, and the OS will not consider a write safe until it is committed to NVRAM (slow), unless it has PLP in which case it considers data safe when it hits the cache (fast).Just FYI, I have got some performance issues with SSDs in RAID5 or parity Storage Spaces. Write performance was about 30 MB/s. Not sure what was reason, either disks or RAID controller, but please make sure that you are getting reasonable numbers after the deployment.