Personal computing discussed
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DragonDaddyBear wrote:I want the speed of running old games off it.
DragonDaddyBear wrote:Waco, I don't suppose you'll be at the BBQ. If love to pick your brain.
So, with L2arc, will I need another VDEV? if so, will it need to be redundant? I have 16 GB on a single stick at the moment, so I will likely be adding another for dual channel 32.
DragonDaddyBear wrote:I'll have a dual socket 6c/12t 48 GB server I'll let go for cheap once I do this upgrade, if you're interested
DragonDaddyBear wrote:OK, let me make sure I understand the high points so I know what to start searching the "series of tubes" for.
- I can assign an L2ARC to a POOL (which, if memory serves correctly, is a grouping of VDEVs).
- I then would configure the L2ARC to be restricted to the data set for games and VM's
- I can partition my main NVMe drive and use a partition as a "special VDEV" that is used for L2ARC. I think this will be fine as the OS is easy to replace, so long as I have the data I'm fine. I'm thinking 512GB drive, so 1/2 for the ARC should be sufficient.
So, what happens if the L2ARC is the same size as the data set? I'm seriously not planning on a lot being on there for now. And can't you easily rejigger space of data sets in the pool?
Also, any bang-for-the-buck drives you'd suggest? I've only got 6 SATA ports to work with. I was originally thinking 4 X 4TB drives and 2X SSD's, but I guess I don't need the SSD's, huh.