What is the bottleneck of gigabit?

[dgrab]

If you're going to mock people much smarter in the data arena than both you and I put together, you pretty much have earned whatever karma comes your way.

I'm at a point where I don't really care. I appreciate the help I've been getting, but snarky demeanors from certain posters on this forum (like yourself) is something I don't particularly care for. Don't worry, I won't hang around any longer.

 

[HoneyBadger]

There is a distinction to be made between casual, home-user level data preservation, and "pretending to be an important business with mission critical datastores" preservation.

Sure, building an enterpride-grade server with a $500+ supermicro motherboard, four redundant premium PSUs, ten $5000+ clustered UPSes and sextuple mirrors + PLP for every single SSD I dare to put in the server might be better for data preservation, but I just don't care enough for that.
For me, TrueNAS is just another way for me to store files over the network, except safer and more robust than my hypervisor, even when virtualized.

Provided that the mention of "stubbed" above means that you've used PCI passthrough to present the HBA in its entirety to the TrueNAS VM, and provided reasonable resources without overcommitting your hypervisor host, a virtual TrueNAS installation can be as safe as running bare-metal on the same hardware.

For the other folks in this thread, I'd like to remind them that risk tolerance is a sliding scale, and a very subjective and personal matter. Please do not ridicule or belittle other users for any reason, including "they have a higher risk tolerance than you, or are storing data that's ultimately replaceable or won't be terribly missed if lost."

Be excellent to each other.

 

[Davvo]

There is a distinction to be made between casual, home-user level data preservation, and "pretending to be an important business with mission critical datastores" preservation.

I will only say that there is no casual data preservation with TN: either you get a robust system or a big failure.
Big failure is when you lose your data, a robust system when you don't.
Rephrasing it, and quoting a user: either you care about your data or you don't.

If you want to virtualize make sure to read the following resource.

Resource - "Absolutely must virtualize TrueNAS!" ... a guide to not completely losing your data.

[---- 2024/01/16: Still relevant. Virtualization really doesn't change much. Updates made as appropriate. ----] [---- 2018/02/27: This is still as relevant as ever. As PCIe-Passthru has matured, fewer problems are reported. I've updated some...

www.truenas.com

Best of luck.