October 19, 20232 yr Hello, What are your thoughts on a Samsung QVO 870 8TB for lancache use? I need something to use as storage for lancache, and in the 8TB segment they seem to be the cheapest drive by far. The reason I believe it would be a decent drive for lancache is that once the cache is prefilled, it would only be the occasional patches and updates, and therefore would not be affected too much by the performance decrease once the write cache is filled.
November 22, 20232 yr Author I found 4TB QVO on sale and ended up purchasing two of them. I put them in RAIDZ-0(Why bother with parity for lancache?) Initital tests allow them to saturate a 1Gbit link when stuff is in the cache. Within a month I will upgrade to 10Gbit LAN for Unraid and 2.5 Gbit for clients, so it will be interesting to see how it holds up then. I will write a follow-up if it begins to behave in an unexpected way.
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