[nmglug] Trunas scale exp?

Jonathan Haack jonathan at jonathanhaack.com
Sat Aug 13 12:42:59 PDT 2022


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On Sat, Aug 13, 2022 at 1:22 PM Jonathan Haack <jonathan at jonathanhaack.com>
wrote:

> Are you booting off a flash drive instance of TruNAS (recommended setup
> afaik)? If so, is it USB 3 on both ends?
>
> Other than that, just make sure the drives are 7200rpm and latest SATA
> spec should be fine. I don't use TruNAS itself, but use zfs pools on two
> physical hosts, which is what TruNAS is using "under the hood"
>
> So, I would check your boot media to begin with, then check which SATA
> implementation you have 1.5, 3, or 6 ... Mbps, and rpms of hard drive.
>
> Good luck.
>
> JMH
> On 8/10/22 3:39 PM, Wesley Robbins wrote:
>
> Does anyone know the best hardware or software setup for TruNAS?  I setup
> trunas a few months ago, and really like it.  minus really poor
> performance. Which might be my hardware. The internet has just confused me
> more.    Searching and reading speeds of Sata, SSD, and pcie is not
> straight. . .  I am not sure where to even look to make changes for the
> better.
>
> Right now I have a AMD phenom II 6x with 16gig and 1 gig Ethernet.  With
> seven Sata drives 2 of which are hot spares.
>
> My thoughts now. Are as follows.
> Pcie Sata card? Better nic?  More ram?  Bad settings?
>
> Any help would be wonderful.
>
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