Hey guys I think I may have gone ahead with this without considering failure,
Not many places I have come across whilst researching have outlined I should get two of these
But Truenas is advising against it when I go to add to my pool as a slog vdev
"A stripe log vdev is highly discouraged and will result in data loss if it fails"
Whats your thoughts will it be fine? what are others doing?
Please see my system spec and usage scenarios below.
Main System Specs:
Current Train: TrueNAS-SCALE - Machine will always be running on the latest stable version.
System - Supermicro - X9SRL-F - CPU E5-2690 0 @ 2.90GHz - Memory 128GB DDR3
Storage - 'Main pool - 8x3TB WD RED' - 'VM pool 4x512gb adata ssd' - 'boot - 2x240gb adata ssd'
10Gig Interface - Chelsio T520 CR T520-CR
HBA Internal - LSI SAS 9210-8i
Log "Main Pool" - INTEL - Optane™ 900P Series SSD - 480 GB
Cache "Main Pool" - Intel SSD DC P3605 NVMe 1.6TB MLC PCIe P3600 Series
System usage:
This server is primarily used as a storage server within a small VFX studio, 2- 10 artists at any given time,
The server serves a mixture of file types but mainly image sequences, video, imagery, photoshop files, some text-based ASCII, JSON python files plus installation media for software as os's. "There is no plex or de/encoding done on the storage server - just reading writing files".
Clients accessing the server are a mixture of Windows 10, OSX Latest, Rocky Linux 8 & 9 - Most clients use 10gbe Nics but have laptops over wifi and 1gbe too
Backup - Cloud sync - Backblaze
It's not the end of the world if this computer goes down for a few hours, but ideally, it doesn't.
Plugin's utilized - Syncthing
VM - It is also used as a hypervisor using Truenas's KVM to save energy/money and combine into one box. 1 to 4 VM's at any given time, hosting a render farm & licence manager & pipeline tools. VM's always run Rocky Linux 9.