Hi
And best wishes for this new year to all the FreeBSD community.
I installed a few years ago a server to do mainly file storage (plus other stuff but mainly file storage). For that purpose I bought an SSD and three WD10EARS (WD Green SATA 1 TB). My goal was (and remains) to have storage and not necessarily performance. I did not take care at that time and created a RAID-Z pool directly on the device. I recently figured that I might not use the AF features of my hardware using the ashift 12 value.
Meanwhile I read that using ashift=12 can improveperfs performance but might reduce storage capacity a bit. As my goal is to privilege storage over perf performance and that my SSD plays the role of cache for my pool, do you think it would make sense to recreate my pool with ashift=12, is it worthless or even should I keep the current settings as my main goal is storage?
Thanks in advance for any advice.
Best regards.
NB I am not an expert of these topics so I apologize if I am not precise enough or do not use the right terms.
And best wishes for this new year to all the FreeBSD community.
I installed a few years ago a server to do mainly file storage (plus other stuff but mainly file storage). For that purpose I bought an SSD and three WD10EARS (WD Green SATA 1 TB). My goal was (and remains) to have storage and not necessarily performance. I did not take care at that time and created a RAID-Z pool directly on the device. I recently figured that I might not use the AF features of my hardware using the ashift 12 value.
Meanwhile I read that using ashift=12 can improve
Thanks in advance for any advice.
Best regards.
NB I am not an expert of these topics so I apologize if I am not precise enough or do not use the right terms.