45Drives HomeLab product line

[ALan]

Then you basically have all you need. Yeah, add a 40gigE card in that thing, buy more RAM off eBay, and add NVMe as cache.

ZFS without lots of RAM and Cache is very slow. Those 2 things help to make it tolerable.

You've Been Inform'd Ep15: Thoughts on Networking and Storage

@MagicMtn

OK, thats interesting.
I currently have a dell R730xd running truenas that is used for the 120TB server I described above.
Are you suggesting regular mechanical harddrives are be able to read and write fast enough to work for for a central framestore as long as I have the correct network setup? (or is the pci card with 4 NVMEs necessary?)

Right now I am running truenas with 12 x 16tb drives
Topology is 2x 6 disks raidz2 vdevs for the storage pool.

I was always under the impression that this set up wouldn’t be fast enough because ZFS had too much overhead or whatever. I could never really find any solid info on that so I never wanted to risk it.
I dident think to add NVMEs as the L2ARC cache to speed things up.

The dell system currently just runs on 10gig. I could slap a 40gig card in the dell and connect it to my switch and maybe thats all I need here for a test.

The Macs would still be at 10gig but as a test case seems like it could be a good first step.