Hello guys, I was having some doubts about my pendrive where Freenas is installed. It is a cheap Kingston data traveler micro of 16GB which has a reading speed of about 15MB/s.
Now my question is: This low reading speed is able to affect the speed of FreeNas? I mean, can it slow the web gui or the transfer of files through SMB? Or the OS is completely charged on the RAM during the boot?
Thank you very much!
EDIT: I found something in this post -> https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/hardware-recommendations-read-this-first.23069/
"USB devices aren't known for being ultra-fast. But since FreeNAS boots up and loads the OS into ram drives the performance of the USB stick is unimportant in the big scheme of things.
If you want to do some forward thinking consider a SATA DOM or a really small SSD (even 30GB of disk space is seriously oversized)."
So why should someone consider to buy a small ssd if the OS is completely loaded into ram drives?
EDIT 2: Another info that I found is in my Freenas reports where da1, the usb thumb that we're talking about, writes data sometime.
Now my question is: This low reading speed is able to affect the speed of FreeNas? I mean, can it slow the web gui or the transfer of files through SMB? Or the OS is completely charged on the RAM during the boot?
Thank you very much!
EDIT: I found something in this post -> https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/hardware-recommendations-read-this-first.23069/
"USB devices aren't known for being ultra-fast. But since FreeNAS boots up and loads the OS into ram drives the performance of the USB stick is unimportant in the big scheme of things.
If you want to do some forward thinking consider a SATA DOM or a really small SSD (even 30GB of disk space is seriously oversized)."
So why should someone consider to buy a small ssd if the OS is completely loaded into ram drives?
EDIT 2: Another info that I found is in my Freenas reports where da1, the usb thumb that we're talking about, writes data sometime.
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