HeloJunkie
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So I am in the process of upgrading my 'PlexNAS FreeNAS' server (listed below in my signature) as follows:
UPGRADES
The system is mostly a Plex server but does also house our primary NextCloud instance. It is a dual 10GB connected box (bonded interface), but overall there might be 10 to 15 plex users on at any given time and maybe 20 internal machines accessing Nextcloud, but the Nextcloud traffic is very minimal due to how Nextcloud actually works. This is a 100% NFS environment, no other services run on the box. No jails, no SMB, etc. This is also the storage array for my Proxmox cluster snapshots, but again, that is not really moving much data.
I am currently using 56TB of storage with 15TB available.
So I guess I am wondering from all of you TrueNAS Core gurus, will the NVMe-based L2ARC help at all, and if so, is 3.2TB of enterprise-grade Intel NVMe better than 500GB of consumer-grade Samsung EVO space?
UPGRADES
- Upgrade CPU to E5-2699V4
- Upgrade RAM to 128GB ECC
- Replace USB Boot with 2 x SM SSD SATADOM (16GB each mirrored)
- Increase storage from 71TB Usage to 120TB Usable (4 x 6 Drive VDEVs, 12GB/s SAS)
- Upgrade from FreeNAS-11.2-RELEASE-U1 to TrueNAS Core
The system is mostly a Plex server but does also house our primary NextCloud instance. It is a dual 10GB connected box (bonded interface), but overall there might be 10 to 15 plex users on at any given time and maybe 20 internal machines accessing Nextcloud, but the Nextcloud traffic is very minimal due to how Nextcloud actually works. This is a 100% NFS environment, no other services run on the box. No jails, no SMB, etc. This is also the storage array for my Proxmox cluster snapshots, but again, that is not really moving much data.
I am currently using 56TB of storage with 15TB available.
So I guess I am wondering from all of you TrueNAS Core gurus, will the NVMe-based L2ARC help at all, and if so, is 3.2TB of enterprise-grade Intel NVMe better than 500GB of consumer-grade Samsung EVO space?