Hey all,
I’m put together my next storage server (A Dell Poweredge R330 and attached MD1200). I have two SSDs mirrored in the R330 to boot, and have two open bays in the server itself. Due to some questionable financial decisions a couple of years ago, I have a stack of new 800gb Dell Enterprise SAS SSDs. I was considering a mirror of these drives as a metadata special device. My use case is general file storage - a few tens of thousands of pictures and a lot of video. I’ll probably have an iSCSI share for my and my GF’s steam libraries, and probably another iSCSI share for CCTV recording from Milestone XProtect. Some of the directories of pictures take a long time to load on my current setup (just a RAID 1 passed to a Ubuntu VM with Samba) as they can have around 9,000 pictures in them. Would this help with the delay in listing certain directories and searching for files? Or is it extra risk that probably wouldn’t benefit my use case? For extra context, I’m planning on the actual pool being made up of mirror VDEVs, so eventually up to 6 mirror VDEVs in the chassis (most likely EXOS drives from Server Part Deals).
Thanks!