Re:Demystifying OpenZFS 2.0
by vladvasiliu on Friday November 19, 2021 @01:38AM
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> But I think most home users with TrueNAS ZFS do not have massive arrays, thus my envy of the tiering or true SSD caching.
I may be heavily influenced by my own situation, but in France, SSDs still are much more expensive than HDDs. I've just bought four IrownWolves, €100 for 4 TB. The cheapest 2 TB SSD I can remember was around €180.
My point is that given the price and the usage profile, I kind of agree with the other poster: I don't have a use for tiered ZFS and would much rather they spent the time on other things.
As it is, I'm already doing a tiered storage of sorts: data that I'm currently working with requiring fast i/o is directly attached to my computer. "Cold" or less i/o sensitive data is plenty fast on spinning drives across the network.
As a home user living in an apartment, this affords another optimization: kick the NAS out and access it over the internet, because gigabit speeds become sufficient.
I may be heavily influenced by my own situation, but in France, SSDs still are much more expensive than HDDs. I've just bought four IrownWolves, €100 for 4 TB. The cheapest 2 TB SSD I can remember was around €180.
My point is that given the price and the usage profile, I kind of agree with the other poster: I don't have a use for tiered ZFS and would much rather they spent the time on other things.
As it is, I'm already doing a tiered storage of sorts: data that I'm currently working with requiring fast i/o is directly attached to my computer. "Cold" or less i/o sensitive data is plenty fast on spinning drives across the network.
As a home user living in an apartment, this affords another optimization: kick the NAS out and access it over the internet, because gigabit speeds become sufficient.