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5 Bay PiBox Coming soon! - 5 Full-Size Hard Drive Bays Is the pi even powerful enough to run the workloads that require 5 drives? On my NAS the only th
by spockz 4y ago
5 Bay PiBox
Coming soon!
- 5 Full-Size Hard Drive Bays
Is the pi even powerful enough to run the workloads that require 5 drives? On my NAS the only thing that manages to saturate the drives is a direct copy. In all else the CPU and RAM is the bottleneck.
If it is for redundant storage, zfs will be quite limited by the 8 gib ram.
- vladvasiliu 4y agoDepending on what they do on a NAS, even ZFS might be fine with 8 GB, especially if they won't take advantage of caching (say it's for a media library or backups). Don't know if ZFS encryption can be accelerated on a PI, that may be a bottleneck. It could also be useful as a ZFS snapshot send target. That uses little RAM and doesn't need ZFS encryption (if your source dataset is already encrypted). --- edit: regarding ZFS RAM usage, the below is from my ZFS NAS, with out-of-the-box ZFS settings: > free -h total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 15Gi 8.2Gi 7.2Gi 12Mi 96Mi 7.0Gi Swap: 0B 0B 0B
- spockz 4y agoYes okay. Indeed as a simple file/snapshot server over network this should be enough. But this is meant to run all kinds of apps on it. For example plex, in many cases that will transcode the video. One could do without the cache when using SSDs I suppose.