I couldn't stand not testing her out, so the icy dock will wait
Got napp-it installed, my raidz2 pool setup with 6x5TB WD RED and installed ZuesRAM and 200GB 12Gb/s SAS drive to play around as SLOG.
Installed Win10 onto that pool, and tested... then increased cores so it could go faster
sync=always
This is with ZuesRAM as SLOG (no L2ARC) on the RaidZ2 pool made of spinning rust.
(WD RED5TB, 32GB RAM, All Cores Available)
(Note this is 200GB SAS 12Gb/s drive not ZuesRAM -- ZuesRAM was almost 2MB/s faster on 4K, but I did not re-bench the SAS drive after changing CPU allocation.... hit 20GHZ max during testing)
My wife says I need to step away from this thing and join the real world for today/tomorrow so I'll be back tomorrow night playing some more
I have the Intel 750 NVME passed-through but not working in Napp-IT yet, and will throw in a P3600 tomorrow to try out.
I'll also be adding the 4x SSD to the other 12Gb/s port and install Win10 on some S3500 or other SSD, maybe 730s? And play around
Oh, and the sweet part.... 120w idle WITH ZuesRAM (~12W) and the 2x200GB SAS SSD. Without those ~104-108w idle! Not bad for 8x HDD, 2x SSD, 2x NVME, M1015, SM NVME AOC, onboard LSI 3008 HBA and 12 cores that will do 2.99GHZ
The Intel 750 400GB will be for the actual guest os, just figured I'd test the raidz2 out for fun while it's not utilized yet