SSD dump drive

[matt998]

Hello,

I was thinking something today since I have determined the issue i am having with slow transfer speed is my SATA expander (yes i need to get a SAS raid controller in IT mode its on it way from the USA). I do have a SATA 3 port available on my MOB so was thinking if i could connect a SSD that I have (an IronWolf NAS 125 500GB drive) and use it as a dump drive and have a script run that would take the files and move it to the correct folder after it is done transferring. I have no clue if this is even possible I may not be using the proper terminology I hope who ever reads this understand what i mean.

 

[sretalla]

What you seem to be talking about is storage tiering.

There are several ways to get to that.

Either with a tool that does it automatically (has already been discussed for TrueNAS SCALE here: https://www.truenas.com/community/t...tion-i-wish-to-run-autotier.94103/post-651313) or with a script that you write on your own.

You could also consider some of the many applications that handle downloading various content and organizing it like Sonarr and Radarr which work together with something like sabnzbd (all of those if it's about DVR/Media type stuff).

If you just want to work at SSD speed but have a backup, then a local replication task may already be sufficient.

 

[matt998]

What you seem to be talking about is storage tiering.

There are several ways to get to that.

Either with a tool that does it automatically (has already been discussed for TrueNAS SCALE here: https://www.truenas.com/community/t...tion-i-wish-to-run-autotier.94103/post-651313) or with a script that you write on your own.

You could also consider some of the many applications that handle downloading various content and organizing it like Sonarr and Radarr which work together with something like sabnzbd (all of those if it's about DVR/Media type stuff).

If you just want to work at SSD speed but have a backup, then a local replication task may already be sufficient.

Thank you for the information.

Got another ? instead of using SSD can i use the NVME M.2 slot to do this instead. Reason thinking this is NVME would give me 3500 MB/s roughly and the SATA SSD would give me roughly 550MB/s. The MOB I have is the B450 Aorus Pro WIFI.