Zil or L2ARC

[Chris Moore]

I would think they would do better selling support to people using the TrueNAS software than limiting themselves to the hardware they sell.

I work at an organization where we just put a contract out to purchase a new server with 60 x 12TB drives. I tried hard to give the business to iXsystems and they just wouldn't quote me on anything close to the hardware I wanted. They wanted to sell me a $120k worth of hardware and support contracts. It looks like we will be getting this new server for around $40k from someone else. I feel bad that they are trying to be in the same ballpark as Dell and HP because I don't want to be in that space.

 

[Chris Moore]

Yeah that makes a full SSD pool for database storage reasonable. you can get 6 of these for $2,700 providing a bit over 2.5TB. I'm sure someone that knows SSDs better and make a better recommendation but just to give you an idea.

Or, you could use these Samsung drives, which are also enterprise drives, and store 3.8TB each for only $2k each.

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA5EM53D6377

 

[Chris Moore]

If it's helpful for OP, I'm using FreeNAS for a shared storage solution for a 2 node (VMware) cluster, hand full of VMs that are under utalized, and it's fibre channel connected via dual fabric 4GB.

If it's helpful, here's numbers I just ran for funzies that might show you can easiy reach you performance objective with the right equipment and config:

Great share. Thanks

 

[kdragon75]

Or, you could use these Samsung drives, which are also enterprise drives, and store 3.8TB each for only $2k each.
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA5EM53D6377

Samsung quotes that drive at "Random Write IOPS (4 KB): 24K" and I thought the OP needed 40k IOPS. Granted the sequential write IO would be a better metric assuming a sufficient SLOG. Also one drive is far from a RAID :p

 

[warllo]

Thanks you for all your replies and advice. Regrettably I was out number on this decision and the decision has been made to purchase and IBM SAN. Thanks again for all your time and support.

 

[sfcredfox]

Thanks you for all your replies and advice. Regrettably I was out number on this decision and the decision has been made to purchase and IBM SAN. Thanks again for all your time and support.

Off topic:
Which one and ball park price for rough specs?