Cerusa827

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Samsung QVO 8tb ZFS pool in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I would do a single ZFS pool with the three drives.

Electric is 35 cents per kWh here

Samsung QVO 8tb ZFS pool in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Any downsides or pitfalls I should be aware of before I spend a grand? I know the drives are not stellar for write performance past a point. I know unraid supports trim in pools as well.

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Samsung QVO 8tb ZFS pool (alien.top)
 

Hey everyone. I have a nice unraid server with sas drives and with plex I find that my kids and wife watch the same stuff all the time. I spin down my sas drives to keep power consumption down but at the same time the lag to start them up is annoying as well as I don’t to cause extra wear and tear on the drives by having them spin up and down multiple times a day.

So I was thinking about buying 3x Samsung QVO 8tb drives and firing up a ZFS pool and moving stuff they watch all the time to there. that would speed up reads and reduce wear and tear on the drives.

For backup I rotate externals for critical data every week in and out of my fireproof safe with two 4tb external usb. Our media storage I have a second unraid server that starts up every Saturday and rsyncs from primary and powers off.