DZMM Posted June 28, 2019 Share Posted June 28, 2019 (edited) I can't remember what the current status is with SSDs in arrays. I've just removed my parity drive as I don't need as I have a good cloud backup strategy. At the moment my cache drive also holds my appdata and I have a couple of unassigned drives for VMs. I'm wondering if it's possible now that I don't have a parity drive to slow down the SSDs: (i) add an SSD to the array for my appdata i.e. set it to Disk x only and not to use cache? (ii) add my nVME drive to the array for my VMs? Would there be any performance hit/gain from the nVME in the array Vs UD? (iii) I'd add the SSD I'd be able to free up to my cache to go from a single 1TB xfs drive to 2x1TB btrfs drives for 2TB cache capacity. Would there be a performance hit for my cache? The reason I'd like to do this is just use my cache as a cache and not have any cache only shares, and to also remove the UD plugin - not because it's not good, because it is, but I just like as minimal a setup as possible and it'd be nice to have everything under /mnt/user rather than some stuff under /mnt/disks Thanks in advance for any help Edited June 28, 2019 by DZMM Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted June 28, 2019 Share Posted June 28, 2019 You can, trim still won't work though. Quote Link to comment
DZMM Posted June 28, 2019 Author Share Posted June 28, 2019 8 minutes ago, johnnie.black said: You can, trim still won't work though. Thanks - so confirming TRIM only works on the cache and UDs? Is there a big performance difference between a single xfs cache drive or a BTRFS pool? Or, one that that normal people won't notice? Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted June 28, 2019 Share Posted June 28, 2019 17 minutes ago, DZMM said: Is there a big performance difference between a single xfs cache drive or a BTRFS pool? I never had performance issues with btrfs pools, and if using raid5/6/10 it's even faster than any single device, but some users have. Quote Link to comment
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