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Do I need SLOG?
Some insights into SLOG/ZIL with ZFS on FreeNAS
What is the ZIL? POSIX provides a facility for the system or an application to make sure that data requested to be written is actually committed to stable storage: a synchronous write request. Upon completion of a sync write request, the underlying filesystem is supposed to guarantee that a...

Only if you foresee heavy VM loads.Do I need more RAM?
Just be aware that realtek's NIC are prone to issues.I'll see how the current 2.5 Realtek works and possibly switch to something more tested soon :)
Sometimes it gets tiring to write the same things every time, please consider those "this is crap" as an invite to do more research on the forum if you want more Infos (or just wait for a less burnout user).I get bombarded with new ideas and potential solutions to problems (sometimes with no explanation and just phrases "this is crap" and "that is crap").
As a side note I once read that NAS over WI-FI is a bad idea (secuty issues?).
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