Hi All, first-time poster. I have about 15 years of working with various RAID systems and recently deployed some 45drives systems, but this will be my first TruNAS Scale system. This is a lower-budget system designed for expandability but I am mostly interested in throughput for this post. Please see my intended build below.
I will start with 12 Exos x20 20TB HDD and 6 Micron 5400 Pro 1.92TB SSDs for L2 ARC. I run a building full of Macs and will rely primarily on SMB3 Multichannel as the transfer protocol. I plan on running a dual-port SFP28 Nvidia/Mellanox ConnectX 4 NIC in my server.
I am considering adding an additional HBA to run the secondary backplane where I intend on setting up the L2 ARC pool but wanted to post it here first. I am focused on fully saturating my network connections.
I will start with 12 Exos x20 20TB HDD and 6 Micron 5400 Pro 1.92TB SSDs for L2 ARC. I run a building full of Macs and will rely primarily on SMB3 Multichannel as the transfer protocol. I plan on running a dual-port SFP28 Nvidia/Mellanox ConnectX 4 NIC in my server.
I am considering adding an additional HBA to run the secondary backplane where I intend on setting up the L2 ARC pool but wanted to post it here first. I am focused on fully saturating my network connections.