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Hello, my system storage config used to be: Array: 8 x Seagate Archive 8TB Cache: 2 x Crucial P3 Plus 4TB in a striped ZFS vdev After my upgrade by dumping the spinning drives for an all SSD setup it looks like this: Array: 8 x Intel P4600 6.4TB Cache: 2 x Crucial P3 Plus 4TB With the array now being SSD-only, though not using a ZFS vdev, should even bother keeping the cache drives? The box is using 10GbE but the rest of the clients are on 2.5GbE.

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The problem with that option is that it's all happening on the same system... 😅 . I currently have a plus license. Can I upgrade to pro to remove the disk number limit and do the copy internally? Or is going the external route the only way?

Hello all, I need some advice on the best way to use a bunch of NVMe drives for my server. I use that box as a file/media server and lab with several VMs and containers currently running off the cache pool. Below is the current config: Compute: Dual Intel Xeon 2680 v2, 320GB DDR3 ECC Storage array: 8xSeagate Archive 8TB SMR(6 holding data and 2 parity disks) Cache pool: 2*1TB SATA SSD + 2*500 GB SATA SSD strip mirrored And this is what it is being upgraded(internal components swap) to: Compute: Threadripper 3960x, 256gb DDR4 Storage(where I need your help): 8xIntel P4610 DC 6.4TB NVMe SSD What would be the best way to set up those new drives and migrate data? Should I even bother with a cache pool since they are so much faster than the spinning rust? I was thinking about going raidz with no cache, since data would be spread across the disk at the block-level and not file-level maximizing throughput for those vdisks. Thoughts? If I go the raidz route, how would I go about migrating data since /domains and /appdata are not visible in the share? Thank you.