Jailer
Not strong, but bad
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So this is the situation I'm facing. I'm getting to the point where I need to plan on an increase in storage space again. Being the digital hoarder that I am I'm currently up to 61% used space on my current pool of 6x8TB drives in a RAIDZ2 configuration. Best Buy currently has a few Easy Store deals going on and my plan was to purchase an additional 6x8TB drives and shuck them to add to my pool. But they also have a REALLY good deal on 18TB drives and I'm tempted to go that route.
My problem is my current system is maxed out on RAM at 32GB. I don't want to spend the money to upgrade my system for more RAM support but I'd really like to take advantage of the sale on those 18TB drives. I do have a few jails running on my current system so I'm afraid that I'll run into memory constraints and possibly performance issues if I add 6 more 18TB drives. I do have another older system sitting behind me that does have 64GB of memory but it's old, an X9SRI with a E5-2680 V2. 4 of the 14 SATA ports on that board are SATA2 to give you an idea of how old it is.
So my question to anyone who has bothered to read through this thread this far is: How large of a pool would you feel comfortable running on 32GB of memory?
My problem is my current system is maxed out on RAM at 32GB. I don't want to spend the money to upgrade my system for more RAM support but I'd really like to take advantage of the sale on those 18TB drives. I do have a few jails running on my current system so I'm afraid that I'll run into memory constraints and possibly performance issues if I add 6 more 18TB drives. I do have another older system sitting behind me that does have 64GB of memory but it's old, an X9SRI with a E5-2680 V2. 4 of the 14 SATA ports on that board are SATA2 to give you an idea of how old it is.
So my question to anyone who has bothered to read through this thread this far is: How large of a pool would you feel comfortable running on 32GB of memory?