SSD in combination with FreeNas

[Freesnofla]

Hello, I'd like to hear from you guys if some of you running the Hardware with SSD's or is that on the actual point Nonsens?

best regards
FreeNassnofla

 

[Ericloewe]

If you have the money to spend like crazy, go ahead and use SSDs.

 

[Freesnofla]

I can wait for 2 years, then I guess the SSD's are on the road to get similar price as HDD

 

[Rand]

Depends on the usage - as hard drive replacement? Some do - for VMware usually;)

 

[cyberjock]

Hate to bust your bubble, but SSDs will not hit the $/GB that platter disks meet until 2020 or so. That's assuming they continue declining in price at the rate that they have been(which is extremely unlikely as technology isn't marching along as fast as it was 3 years ago). There's an article in the off topic section of the forum talking about this.

 

[Freesnofla]

Well then I'm 75 years old :-( hope I can survive so long.

 

[solarisguy]

N in FreeNAS stands for network. How do you plan to connect your FreeNAS server to your network that you would notice the difference between an SSD and a hard drive?

If you want silence, then the hard drives do not enter the contest, unless you have a fan on your CPU.

 

[erodz1892]

Just curious, can I create a partition on Windows ssd let's say 12gb. to install the freenas image there and use the rest of the partition for the jails. I already run the jails on a ssd so the hdd goes to sleep while not in use works good but for some reason I don't like usbs

 

[solarisguy]

@erodz1892, please just run FreeNAS from a USB memory device, then create a volume (ZFS pool) on your SSD. Have .system residing there. Also point your jails to use SSD. Then you will be very happy (or at least your hard drive will peacefully sleep not being interrupted, unless it is actually serving something). I had a very similar configuration, it worked like a charm.

Use 9.2.1.6, if you can, since it makes you more aware about .system

In my case, jails and anything on SSDs (I had two, mirrored) could have been easily recreated from scratch.

P.S.
@erodz1892, be nice to Freesnofla, since you are hijacking his thread...

 

[Ericloewe]

Just curious, can I create a partition on Windows ssd let's say 12gb. to install the freenas image there and use the rest of the partition for the jails. I already run the jails on a ssd so the hdd goes to sleep while not in use works good but for some reason I don't like usbs

No you cannot. ANY device used as the FreeNAS boot device cannot be used for anything else, due to MBR limitations (thank IBM). This limitation will last until FreeNAS moves to UEFI and GPT.

 

[erodz1892]

Sorry didn't meant to take anything away just thought it be better to jump here since I had the same question and didn't wanted to open a new thread with the same subject. Anyways thanks for the advice, I do have the jails on a separate SSD I am going to work on the .system file not sure how to do it but with a bit of research I'm sure ill get there.

 

[erodz1892]

Thanks for the advice, I guess my plan was a bust with partitions. I have the jails on a separate SSD going to work on moving that system file to the SSD not sure where to start but Ill do some research. Although I am not sure how did this happened I assume the system files are on the right spot on the SSD not sure if that's the default location I did initiated the pools and ZFS on this device first.