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bhouston 7 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 1 – configuring ZFS mirror...

I've run my own Home NAS on ZFS for 4 years or so. In the end I ended up with majority NVMe setup with long-term archival storage on HDDs. This made my NAS much more useful / ergonomic since I can search, move files at 10Gbps speeds. I really hated the pause when opening up directories, etc. Details here:

https://benhouston3d.com/blog/home-network-lessons

gigatexal 7 months ago [–]

With the metadata stuff they added you could put metadata on nvme and keep the spinning rust. All flash is nice though but not as economical as this.

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