Hi folks, I wanted to ask for feedback on a massive shift in methodology that I'm considering for my server. If you take a look at my signature, you'll see that I'm running some serious hardware. However, things are about to get even crazier since I've recently acquired a Storinator chassis and a 64-core EPYC CPU.

 

I'm at a crossroads; here are my options:

1. Continue using Unraid and XFS - My overall server capacity is limited and rebuilds take ~3 days to complete. Things are working well-enough, but everything is slow. I feel like I've outgrown XFS.
2. Continue using Unraid, but swap the array to ZFS - ZFS on Unraid is still a beta feature. I'm also not sure whether it's possible to set up ZFS as the primary array format in the Unraid GUI. How stable is Unraid + ZFS?
3. Move to TrueNAS and leave Unraid behind - This will involve LOTS of time investment to bring up services like I have on Unraid already. It's an entirely new system to learn, tune, optimize. The community isn't as vibrant and helpful.

 

Note: Don't worry about moving/storing data between drive format changes. I will have enough drives available to temporarily hold all the data. Also, most of the drives in the array are currently 18TB, so it's not a big deal for me to build ZFS pools with similar drives.

 

PLEASE leave your comments below. I'm very eager to hear everyone's thoughts on this.

11 hours ago, juchong said:

Continue using Unraid, but swap the array to ZFS

You can do that but not clear what you expect to gain from that, using zfs on the regular array won't result in better performance, you can create a zfs pool and that will bring better performance but it also has its disadvantages, take a look here for mains ones.