Thanks. Implemented. Will see tomorrow how it performs. 1 drive finished which is success in itself with default settings. I really don't want to move past 4 HDDs now. I'm probably terminally addicted to flash and just can't stand spinning media anymore. LOL Quite annoyed that HAMR technology which - announced like 50 times already - is still in the doldrums. With 2 like 200TB drives I wouldn't even need a pool
Word (or more) of clarification. I don't use any network storage. DP is not running on a server but on my primary workstation (CaseLabs TH10A, it holds a loooot of stuff). Never used NAS, never will. Everything external is DAS cold storage which as name suggest is used only when I acquire sufficient amount of new data to move something more substantial. BTW: DP works perfectly well with my 8 bay Fantec USB3 QB-XU8S3-6G (clone of a clone of MediaSonic Probox and many others) enclosures. Was thinking about Thunderbolt but whole circus with certification and often truly ridiculous pricing I decided against.
As for SSDs. I really arriving at the conclusion it's better to bunch like 16x 250 GB drives for RAID60 than toy with pool (these ToughArmor 8x2.5" enclosures are really cute, tiny and hold bags of drives - already obtained one and will get quite few of those + another expander if cash flow permits). With regard to TRIM. Well it's not that catastrophic. I think its relevance is vastly over hyped (except critical applications). I did experiment with SSDs connected in old X58 system via first motherboard then 6805 and then 71605. Normal volumes and RAIDed. Same drives were moved and I never took care of TRIM thingy. After ~4 years of 12-15/h use I dismantled arrays and took all drives for a "service" and discovered only 1 out of 4 shown 3% drop in life expectancy (that 1 was used as system boot drive for about 2 years) with rest in tip top shape. Because of SSD superior transfers it's not end of the world if there a bit of delay with writes. I have 2 SSD arrays and all of them perform quite well. Read is blazing fast (talking R10) with write hit with like 30% penalty. My fingers itching for more SSDs in my case, but I try to resist and see what X-Point vel Optane (what a stupid name) will bring to the table. 750s are worth every [put your currency in here] can't wait for 2016.
I've mentioned 750 above, but my only concern was operating temperature. With smartools I'm now calm. Was worried a bit it getting too hot, but after few runs of monitoring it never passed 35C so no problems there.
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