archomrade [he/him]@midwest.social to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoIf you were to suddenly come into possession of 12+ enterprise-grade SAS hard drives, how would you go about incorporating them into your homelab?message-squaremessage-square46fedilinkarrow-up142arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up140arrow-down1message-squareIf you were to suddenly come into possession of 12+ enterprise-grade SAS hard drives, how would you go about incorporating them into your homelab?archomrade [he/him]@midwest.social to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square46fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarecomputergeek125@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoWhy immediate jump to IT mode? Sure ZFS is great but running ZFS takes a decent chunk of RAM for cache.
minus-squareShdwdrgn@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoWhat do you consider a fair amount? My current server has 64GB of ram but arc_summary says ZFS is only using 6.35GB on a system with three ZFS pools totaling over 105TB of storage under pretty much constant usage.
Why immediate jump to IT mode? Sure ZFS is great but running ZFS takes a decent chunk of RAM for cache.
What do you consider a fair amount? My current server has 64GB of ram but arc_summary says ZFS is only using 6.35GB on a system with three ZFS pools totaling over 105TB of storage under pretty much constant usage.