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If you're doing ZFS where that I/O bandwidth is a limiting factor, I'm thinking the 4GB of the APU2 makes it not interesting for ZFS in the first place (dependi
by 3np 5y ago
If you're doing ZFS where that I/O bandwidth is a limiting factor, I'm thinking the 4GB of the APU2 makes it not interesting for ZFS in the first place (depending on the workloads of course, but you're probably going to want a bigger ARC).
I can see it work well as a sink for automated replicated snapshots, where I/O performance is not that critical.
- dsr_ 5y agoYup. Use mdadm to do RAID5, 6 or 10 and let it sit in your friend's place as a target for encrypted snapshots; do the same in exchange and you both have reliable offsite backups. If you need a big restore, go get the machine physically and bring it back to your network for full gigabit speeds.
- blibble 5y agounless you have several hundred TB, 4GB should be fine it's quite happy with a 40tb array I have on a 2010 server with 4GB of ram (and I've run ZFS on every laptop I've owned in the last decade or so)
- wyager 5y agoZFS works fine these days in low-RAM environments. As you say, you won’t benefit much from ARC, but for most NAS workloads that is fine.