Elliott
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- Sep 13, 2019
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How important is CPU speed and cores for a FreeNAS? I think the total amount of storage doesn't matter much, but increased total throughput to clients does. Is there some guideline formula for estimating CPU usage? I'm guessing 1 core per client would be the bare minimum.
I'm thinking of doing 11 raidz2 vdevs, each with 9x 14TB disks for 1PB usable capscity. I will be storing large files, so sequential bandwidth is more important than IOPS. With this configuration, I expect to get around 12GBps total throughput, assuming each disk is 170MBps. I may have 10 clients each on 10GbE with a mix of SMB and NFS.
Also, does ZFS / FreeNAS have any Intel specific optimizations or should it perform well on AMD Epyc too?
I'm thinking of doing 11 raidz2 vdevs, each with 9x 14TB disks for 1PB usable capscity. I will be storing large files, so sequential bandwidth is more important than IOPS. With this configuration, I expect to get around 12GBps total throughput, assuming each disk is 170MBps. I may have 10 clients each on 10GbE with a mix of SMB and NFS.
Also, does ZFS / FreeNAS have any Intel specific optimizations or should it perform well on AMD Epyc too?