optane

Hi, these are offered rather cheaply out of China on eBay. I have never built a server with a dedicated SLOG device. I will need to build a server with HP hardware with > 100T. The current server uses 1.2T disks (48 in 6 RAID z2 vdevs) but I will need to at least double that. We would need a...

Vermaden's Valuable News – 2022/09/19 has a link to a great article on Exploring the Best ZFS ZIL SLOG SSD with Intel Optane and NAND. It looks at the relative performances of various types of (mostly enterprise class) SSDs, with mixes of SATA, NVMe (U2, M2, and PCIe), and Optane devices. They...

I knew that Intel had sold off its SSD business to SK hynix, but didn't know that the Optane business is being written off with a half billion dollar impairment. Ouch!

Edit: I realized I knew too little about ZFS when I wrote this. Sorry guys. Hello, I don't have a ECC memory so I don't want ZFS to use memory as ARC. I have a 256 GB M.2 PCIE SSD and 1 TB of HDD. And I will buy a 32 GB Optane module. And I have a SATA SSD 256 GB. How much for ZIL needed for...