I am seriously debating replacing the 1GB SATA HDD (aka spinning rust) in my TrueNAS-12.0-U8.1 unit with SATA SSD's. The main workload is as light ESXi NFS datastore. The two drive types I am considering are these: Western Digital 1TB WD Red SA500 NAS 3D NAND Internal SSD - SATA III 6 Gb/s...

Hi, I installed the TrueNAS-12.0-U6.1 on a HP Proliant DL380 Gen9 with 3 Smart HBA H240 with 24 SATA SSD attached to it. Everything work well until i start to make some test benchmarks etc for the pool. Then i realized that maybe my SSD are not config as best ( using some WD BLUE 1 TB SSD SATA...

Hello, I have built an all SSD array with the following configuration: Motherboard make and model: Dell r720xd CPU make and model: Dual Intel E5-2643 v2 (6 core 3.5ghz, HT, 3.8ghz turbo) (these can be swapped for 2697 v2 cpus if you think it would be better) RAM quantity: 256GB ECC DDR3 Hard...

Hello, my name is Roberto. From Wenatchee WA-US. Here at the world wide capital of the apples. Hi. everyone. I'm approaching on building 2x FreeNAS one for my 1)LoTe [Long-Term] data and one for my 2)VERCa [Video-Editing-Rendering-Cache]. I been buying old used or refurbished gear from eBay and...

I have questions and concerns about this project including issues such as: TRIM Using multiple SATA controllers & how that will impact single network client performance Write cache/buffer Under-provisioning Server Hardware: CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2670's RAM: 16x8GB Kingston DDR3 UDIMM ECC 1600MHz...