What to do with a 120GB SSD

adrianwi

Guru

Jul 31, 2016

#1

Ive been given one of these and was wondering what to do with it :D

Options I was considering were:

Replace the 2x16GB USB stick and use it to boot FreeNAS
Install as a separate pool and copy across my jails dataset
Something else I don't really understand yet (e.g. ZIL, LARC, etc.)
Nothing

What would you do?

Supermicro X11SSL-CF (flashed IT P16)
Intel Xeon E3-1230v6 3.5GHz
Crucial 4x 16GB DDR4 ECC 2400MHz
Seasonic Focus PX-650
Fractal Define R5 + FD-FAN-SSR3-140
Cyberpower CP1300EPFCLCD-UK UPS

TrueNAS-13.0-U6
2x120GB Crucial BX500 SSD (Mirror) for boot
8x8TB WD80E(Z/M)AZ (RAIDZ2) (1 RMA'ed after 12 months)
2x1TB Samsung 860 EVO SSD (Mirror) running the following jails and VMs:

Airsonic 10.6.2
~~~~Calibre 4.7.0~~ and~~ replaced with Calibre-Web 0.6.21 running in a Docker container
emby 4.8.3.0
~~Home Assistant 0.106.6~~ Hass.io now running on a Raspberry Pi 4
LimeSurvey 6.4.0 (PHP 7.4.30)
MediaWiki 1.35.5 (PHP 7.4.30)
Nextcloud 28.0.3 (PHP 8.2.8) with Onlyoffice (via VM)
~~NGINX reverse proxy 1.16.1_11 with Certbot 0.38.0_1~~ replaced with NGINX Proxy Manager 2.10.4 running on Hass.io Pi
OpenVPN 2.6.8
~~Unbound 1.8.3~~ replaced with Pi-hole 5.17.3 running in a VM
WordPress 6.4.3 (PHP 8.2.8)
ubuntu VMs running Onlyoffice, Crashplan, Mattermost, Pi-hole and some things via Docker

My blog, which includes some stuff about how I use FreeNAS

SuperMicro X10SL7-F (flashed IT P20)
Intel Xeon E3-1231v3 3.4GHz
Crucial 4x 8GB DDR3 ECC 1600MHz 1.35V
Seasonic Focus GX-650
Fractal Define R5 + FD-FAN-SSR2-140

TrueNAS-13.0-U6
1x120GB Toshiba Q300 SSD for boot
9x4TB Seagate ST4000VN000 (RAIDZ1)

Dice

Wizard

Jul 31, 2016

#2

1, 2, or 4.

anodos said:
You need to change your problem so that lines up with my solution.

Ericloewe said:
We're talking catastrophic PSU failure, massive undetected RAM failure, physical destruction, alien high-intensity degaussing beams, extreme heat or the presence of Linus from LinusTechTips in the same room as the server.

GrumpyBear said:
Though the fans are rated for 800-1500 rpm (downhill, with a tail-wind, and a moon in the third phase of Venus and with 64-byte UDP packets)

joeschmuck said:
I guess I could ask my Ex (she works for HGST) for some discount drives but they may be filled with C4 vice Helium.

DrKK said:
you have Seagate Barracuda ST3000DM001. The correct storage configuration with this model hard drive is as deep in a landfill as possible.

Ericloewe said:
When John from the Java team, who fancied himself a history expert, mentioned that the Sherman tank was quite the deathtrap, the ZFS dev team did cast him into the pit of eternal despair, that unholy place mortals call "Human Resources".

DrKK said:
OP, just for the record, having a "4 drive stripe", on a scale of ZFS stupidity from 1 to 10, is a 9.998, behind only having a "5 drive stripe".

Stux said:
The one exception is in a thermally constrained environment. That should be the only reason to go with the gimped processor.

Ericloewe said:
It's actually using very advanced quantum sorcery, but since Unix is Unix, everything gets dumped into the decidedly classical standard output, so that people can do Unix things to it like "pipe it through SSH" or "pipe it into a file" or "pipe it straight to zfs recv" or "pipe it into cat and immediately get arrested by the Unix police because why the !%#& would you use cat to view a text file, much less a zfs replication stream".

Turgin said:
I didn't want to be on the island alone when the fecal matter contacts the rotating blades.

anodos said:
Well, one could view the government / medical IT as inherently having a selective pressure where only the incompetent survive.

Black Ninja said:
My bad experience with Seagate stop intermediately after I stop buying them:)

Etorix said:
"Practicality" was out as a starter. I guess it's fair that "economical" goes through the window as well.

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Robert Trevellyan

Pony Wrangler

Aug 1, 2016

#3

5. Use it as the boot device in a different computer.

Stux

MVP

Aug 1, 2016

#4

6. Tell us what it actually is.

Setting up Sandboxes with Jailmaker

Build Report
OS: TrueNAS SCALE 23.10.2 (Cobia)
Chassis: Norco RPC-4224 (4U 24 Bay with quiet fan/airflow modifications)
Motherboard: Supermicro X10SRi-F (UP, IPMI, 10 SATA3, 6 PCIe3, 1TB RAM limit)
CPU: Intel Xeon ~~E5-1650 v4~~ E5-2699A v4 (22 cores/44threads 2.4-3.6Ghz)
Cooler: Noctua NH-U9DX i4 (2 x Noctua 90mm NF-B9 PWM fans)
PSU: Corsair RM1000x (modular 10yr warranty 1000W)
RAM: 4 x 32GB Kingston ECC RDIMM DDR4-2400
Boot: 2 x 16GB Sandisk Cruiser Fit 3.0
SLOG: Intel Optane p4801x 100GB M.2 NVMe PCIe3 x4
L2ARC: 2x Samsung 850 Pro 512GB SSD
Pool: 18x NAS 4TB drives in mirrors + Hot Spare (Seagate/Western Digital, Red+, NAS-HDD, IronWolf, IronWolf Pro etc)
HBA1: IBM ServeRAID M1115 (cross-flashed to LSI 9211-8i P20 IT)
HBA2: IBM ServeRAID M1015 (cross-flashed to LSI 9211-8i P20 IT)
SAS Expander: Intel RES2CV360 36-Port SAS Expander
HD Fans: 3 x 120mm Noctua NF-F12 PWM (high SP)
Exhaust Fans: 2 x 80mm Noctua NF-A8 PWM
Fan Control: Hybrid CPU & HD Fan Zone Controller Script
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Build Report + Tutorial
OS: TrueNAS Scale: Dragonfish-24.04-RC.1
Case: Fractal Design Node 304
PSU: Corsair RM550x
Motherboard: Supermicro X10SDV-TLN4F (8C/16T + 2x 10gbe + 2x gbe)
Memory: 2x 16GB Crucial DDR4 RDIMM
Boot: Samsung 960 Evo 250GB M.2 PCI NVMe SSD
HDs: 6x Seagate IronWolf 8TB
HD Fans: 2x Noctua 92mm NF-A9 PWM
Exhaust Fan: Noctua 140mm NF-A14 PWM
SLOG/L2ARC/Swap: Intel P3700 400GB HHHL AIC PCI NVMe SSD
Fan Control: Hybrid CPU & HD Fan Zone Controller Script - ESXi/X10SDV mods

OS: TrueNAS Scale: Dragonfish-24.04-RC.1
Motherboard: ~~Intel DX38BT (ES)~~ died... now using something even older!
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad ~~Extreme QX9650 3.0ghz (ES)~~ 2.66Ghz (ES) (previous died)
PSU: Enhance EPS-0310 (1000W)
RAM: ~~4 x 2GB ECC DDR3 (ECC non functional on DX38BT)~~ 4GB of DDR2!!!
Boot: 2 x 16GB Sandisk Cruiser Fit 3.0 (at 2.0)
Hotswap Cage: IcyDock 5in3 FlexCage MB975SP-B (5 bays, hotswap)
Storage: 4 x 8TB Seagate IronWolf RaidZ1

Hybrid CPU & HD Fan Zone Controller
How to relocate swap to the boot drive
How to relocate swap to an SSD or partition
Script to pagein any used swap to prevent kernel crashes
Script to email files as attachments

DrKK

FreeNAS Generalissimo

Aug 1, 2016

#5

I personally run my jails on a separate SSD.

As to why? I guess I don't know the answer. I can't make a cogent case for it.

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