Hello,
I'm fairly new to FreeNAS and have read up a lot about FreeNAS and ZFS for the past months. I'm saving for a new NAS solution which isn't so prone to bitrot as I have been having issues after couple of years with my past two setups. I'm now looking into the new Intel Xeon D1541/D1521. Still in doubt if I should go for the 4 or the 8 core. I want to run FreeNAS, SABNZBd, Couchpotato, Plek, Sickbeard and a HTTP server on the NAS next to it's regular duties. Also want some VM's but doubting about running these on a seperate machine and just using a 2 SSD pool for storage on FreeNAS.
But what I actually wanted to ask is the following; the new Intel Xeon D's come with the Intel Accelerated Storage Library (ISA-L) which is a library published by Intel (Opensource) which enables faster execution of specific storage duties such as checksumming (as used by ZFS) https://01.org/intel®-storage-acceleration-library-open-source-version. They also published a Storage Performance Development Kit (SPDK) which allows to make use of the optimized storage stuff in the Xeon's. I already tried searching google and the forums for SPDK or ISA-L but came up empty handed. Could anyone here tell me what's the status on this?
Thanks in advance for your answers!
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9773/...ated-with-storage-and-networkingspecific-skus
I'm fairly new to FreeNAS and have read up a lot about FreeNAS and ZFS for the past months. I'm saving for a new NAS solution which isn't so prone to bitrot as I have been having issues after couple of years with my past two setups. I'm now looking into the new Intel Xeon D1541/D1521. Still in doubt if I should go for the 4 or the 8 core. I want to run FreeNAS, SABNZBd, Couchpotato, Plek, Sickbeard and a HTTP server on the NAS next to it's regular duties. Also want some VM's but doubting about running these on a seperate machine and just using a 2 SSD pool for storage on FreeNAS.
But what I actually wanted to ask is the following; the new Intel Xeon D's come with the Intel Accelerated Storage Library (ISA-L) which is a library published by Intel (Opensource) which enables faster execution of specific storage duties such as checksumming (as used by ZFS) https://01.org/intel®-storage-acceleration-library-open-source-version. They also published a Storage Performance Development Kit (SPDK) which allows to make use of the optimized storage stuff in the Xeon's. I already tried searching google and the forums for SPDK or ISA-L but came up empty handed. Could anyone here tell me what's the status on this?
Thanks in advance for your answers!
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9773/...ated-with-storage-and-networkingspecific-skus
