diskdiddler
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Hi all,
Hope the subject covers it.
In the next 36 months (depending on the budget) I'm probably going to re-build a new FreeNAS system from scratch, likely with FreeNAS 10, intel CPU, 16gb of ECC, nice new case.
I'm curious if I build a machine for example with 3 to 6 physical HDD's and say 2 to 3 SSD's. Is it possible to configure the system so that ALL writes to the system are on the SSD and the drives are only spun up for reads? Is there a way to configure jails, other such stuff so the disks are idle far more often?
I completely realise there's been discussion about disk spin down not being recommended but perhaps with sufficiently sized SSD's we can work around this? Understandably the complexity is significantly more for the system but I'd love to keep power usage lower, disk utilisation and heat lower.
Any thoughts on this, maybe not for now but for the long term?
(it hits 91.4f in my apartment in summer..... indoors!) :/
Hope the subject covers it.
In the next 36 months (depending on the budget) I'm probably going to re-build a new FreeNAS system from scratch, likely with FreeNAS 10, intel CPU, 16gb of ECC, nice new case.
I'm curious if I build a machine for example with 3 to 6 physical HDD's and say 2 to 3 SSD's. Is it possible to configure the system so that ALL writes to the system are on the SSD and the drives are only spun up for reads? Is there a way to configure jails, other such stuff so the disks are idle far more often?
I completely realise there's been discussion about disk spin down not being recommended but perhaps with sufficiently sized SSD's we can work around this? Understandably the complexity is significantly more for the system but I'd love to keep power usage lower, disk utilisation and heat lower.
Any thoughts on this, maybe not for now but for the long term?
(it hits 91.4f in my apartment in summer..... indoors!) :/