BUILD Aint this some kinda fun!

[Dirk]

If you're a shill, I'll happily reach down your throat all the way to the other end and pull what's there all the way back through.

In the meantime, any clever or useful technology links are probably fine. If not, someone from the moderation team will tell you.

Ahhhhh. A self policing forum ;-) With a slight flavor of DeadPool!

Thanks, great forum to be a part of! I'm feeling the love at " the other end" ;-)

And where the heck are the emoticons?

 

[Mirfster]

There are emoticons?!?!?!?!? :p:D

 

[Dirk]

This is exactly what I just told you to do. No stand off required you just put the ssd on first then then HDD. You can also put ssds in bottom half of front bezel.

Got it, thought the rubber isolators for the spin drive would interfere, good to know. I see there is space for an SSD up front, but no mount point. Did I get that right?

Thanks for pointing that out.

 

[SweetAndLow]

Got it, thought the rubber isolators for the spin drive would interfere, good to know. I see there is space for an SSD up front, but no mount point. Did I get that right?

Thanks for pointing that out.

Ssd don't need to be mounted to anything. Mine are just taped into the front of that case

 

[Dirk]

There are emoticons?!?!?!?!? :p:D

You're going to make me dig for it arntcha?

 

[Mirfster]

;)

 

[Dirk]

Ssd don't need to be mounted to anything. Mine are just taped into the front of that case

So just how many drives do you have in that case?

 

[Dirk]

View attachment 12242 ;)

Oh geeezzz... Look up Luke...Look up!

 

[SweetAndLow]

So just how many drives do you have in that case?

I had 6 hdds when I used it for my nas. No reason to have ssds. Then I switch to a 24bay rack unit for my nas and use the fractal for desktop gaming PC. I tried hiding the ssd on the edge or HDD cage but ended up hiding it in front so now it looks like i don't have a drive for my os.

 

[BigDave]

Ssd don't need to be mounted to anything. Mine are just taped into the front of that case

Don't forget my favorite SSD mounting method,
Double sided velcro.
:D

 

[anodos]

Don't forget my favorite SSD mounting method,
Double sided velcro.
:D

Don't limit that to just SSDs. It's also a great method for attaching about everything. Use it for POE injectors, environmental sensors, raspberry pi cases, naughty children, etc.

 

[jgreco]

Ahhhhh. A self policing forum ;-) With a slight flavor of DeadPool!

I thought that threatening to change your handle to "Francis" might be obscure for some of the readership.

Plus we're supposed to play nice.

 

[Jailer]

Don't forget my favorite SSD mounting method,
Double sided velcro.
:D

I love Velcro.

 

[Bidule0hm]

Well, if velcro is good enough for the ISS I guess it's good enough for us :D

 

[jgreco]

Well, if velcro is good enough for the ISS I guess it's good enough for us :D

Velcro, technology's duct tape.

Panduit Tak-Ty is great for bundling cables without all the thickness of velcro though.

 

[Bidule0hm]

And gecko tape, technology's velcro :D

 

[jgreco]

And gecko tape, technology's velcro :D

Have they perfected that, yet? It's always seemed to be a bit of a vaporware type of thing...

 

[Bidule0hm]

Not right now AFAIK, still under R&D but there's already some manufacturing processes that should work at large scale.

 

[Robert Trevellyan]

Yes on the L2ARC. Am I to understand that there may be no benefit?

L2ARC can be beneficial in a system that has a heavy read load and a poor ARC hit ratio, but it consumes RAM that might be better used for ARC. In general, max out your RAM first, then test to see if you need L2ARC.

 

[jgreco]

L2ARC can be beneficial in a system that has a heavy read load and a poor ARC hit ratio, but it consumes RAM that might be better used for ARC. In general, max out your RAM first, then test to see if you need L2ARC.

Good point, also, in many/most cases, L2ARC doesn't really offer an advantage unless your pool is actually very busy. A lightly loaded pool can retrieve data from the pool without significant impact, so adding L2ARC into that mix really gets you very little. An L2ARC added to something like a busy departmental fileserver, on the other hand, may increase the apparent I/O capacity of the pool by freeing up IOPS used to read the regularly-accessed stuff.