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    Using cheap SSDs in RAID in 2019?

    Thanks for the replies. It's an old motherboard I'll be using so I'm not exactly sure if it will be any good for NVME or not. It's a Gigabyte GA-Z77X-D3H. Here's the spec: https://www.gigabyte.com/uk/Motherboard/GA-Z77X-D3H-rev-10#sp Booting from the NVME drive wouldn't be needed, just for...
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    Using cheap SSDs in RAID in 2019?

    I'm looking for some advice on a cheap solution for fast(ish) storage for VMs. I was thinking of using 2 x 1TB Samsung 860 Evo in an MDADM RAID 1 setup on Linux. Since I will be sharing out this storage as ISCSI for ESXI (i.e. it will be a big chunk of storage shared out, not individual files...
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    Samsung magician - how to get rid of stupid schedule?

    Cheers, I'll just run it when needed. Andy.
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    Samsung magician - how to get rid of stupid schedule?

    Thanks, but I'm running XP through neccessity as some apps I need don't work on anything higher than XP. You're right though, maybe I should p2v the machine, install 7 or 8 and RDP to the VM. :cool: You would think so, but no, they have implemented their own task shed! :rolleyes:
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    Samsung magician - how to get rid of stupid schedule?

    Hmmm. Thanks but I don't think you can (unless I am missing something). Don't seem to be able to interact with it in any way.
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    Samsung magician - how to get rid of stupid schedule?

    anybody know how to get rid of this? :confused: It's set up a 'performance optimization' task to run every afternoon. Obviously not ideal! I have a delete option next to the one I set up, but not the stupid daily one. How do I get rid of/change the time of that?! Obviously being Samsung, it is...
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    How to align partitions for 4k on RAID?

    Thanks, was hoping that wouldn't be the case :( Any recommended RAID cards which are known to work with 512, 512e and 4k drives?
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    How to align partitions for 4k on RAID?

    Running the drives using the IT mode firmware and correctly aligned partitioned gets about 100mb/s seq writes back. Same drives, with IR mode firmware get only 44mb/s seq writes. So how do I go about aligning the partitions properly when using RAID? My guess would be that the RAID controller...
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    SO do we really still need to long format new Drives?

    JBOD in this context implies spanning, no? Otherwise it is not functionally equivalent to RAID-0 (i.e. you get two 4tb drives, rather than a single 8tb).
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    SO do we really still need to long format new Drives?

    Why is JBOD considered safer than RAID0? If you lose a disk you are still up shit creek. How can it have a lower chance of failure if you have the same amount of disks?
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    Very slow writes LSI SAS1064E

    I have a system with this card in, but the writes are very slow: (This is the best it has done, sector size override and queue length have been tuned to the optimal settings through trial and error with ZFSGuru benchmarking). Google research indicates the slow writes may be down to a lack of...
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    Monitoring FreeNAS

    Haha, cheers dedobot ... looks like that's what I'll be doing then!
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    Monitoring FreeNAS

    Has anybody got a good solution for monitoring FreeNAS? We use Nagios to monitor our other hosts, but can't seem to get anything other that a few basic checks done for FreeNAS. The SNMP doesn't seem to output much of use, and the alerting system seems to only display a red or green light...
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    Processor questions for a new NAS build - ZFS?

    Interesting, I cannot see any difference with compression on or off in my benchmarks (using incompressible data obv.).
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    I am teh sadness :(

    Bad luck mate. :( I've always been a bit anal about backing up my stuff and I still managed to lose all my uni work including my dissertation/final year project (approx 6 months of work) a couple of years after uni in a combination of hardware failure and PEBCAK. Still narks me about 6 years on. :(
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