ericsmith881
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I've got a (somewhat) unique use case I could use some advice with. I'm building a large media center storage system for my Plex collection. It consists of 12x6TB SAS drives in a PowerVault MD1200 and 8x8TB SATA drives in a PowerVault MD1000. Both are attached to a PowerEdge R710 with 128GB RAM, 2x hex-core 2.93GHz Xeon 5670 using the non-RAID 6GB SAS HBA. The intention is to use this as an iSCSI VMware datastore for my home VMware cluster (2x Dell R620's). Everything is connected via 10-gigabit Ethernet. I have eight free 2.5" drive bays internal to the R710 I could use for SSD's if there is any benefit.
Since this is going to be a media center, it's going to do things a little differently than a typical file/print:
My questions are:
Since this is going to be a media center, it's going to do things a little differently than a typical file/print:
- All files will be large (20GB-80GB).
- Reads will dominate. Writes will only happen when I get new movies which is a couple times a month.
- Sequential performance is all that matters. Random I/O is almost non-existent.
My questions are:
- How should I tune this for my specific use case?
- Would adding more RAM to the R710 give meaningful benefits?
- Is L2ARC worth messing with?
- What about an SLOG?