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which ssd for zil

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which ssd for zil

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I understand that zil is only good for nfs and scsi and cifs doesn't use it. i just need it for my home esxi server. cause write speeds picked up when i place my old desktop 500gig as zil device but still not good enough. so vm data isnt important

i read that if a power failure happens it can corrupt ssd's. but if its only for lab vm's its fine. as long as the bug that takes the whole pool data is gone.

which ssd should go for


Transcend 2.5" Half Slim 8GB Solid State Drive - Read Speed Up To 53MB/s, Write Speed Up To 17MB/s, 64MB DRAM Cache

Transcend 2.5" HSD630 Series Half Slim 32GB Solid State Drive - Read Speed Up To 260MB/s, Write Speed Up To 81MB/s, Operating temperature -40ºC~85ºC, 64MB DRAM Cache

im hopping the 8gig write speed is fine for me

thanks richard

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Re: which ssd for zil

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Nas4Free 11.1.0.4.4517. Supermicro X10SLL-F, 16gb ECC, i3 4130, IBM M1015 with IT firmware. 4x 3tb WD Red, 4x 2TB Samsung F4, both GEOM AES 256 encrypted.

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Re: which ssd for zil

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Read Speed Up To 53MB/s, Write Speed Up To 17MB/s, 64MB DRAM Cache
Both of your SSDs are not the fastest, something like this would be more suitable:
http://de.transcend-info.com/Products/No-644
NAS 1: Milchkuh: Asrock C2550D4I, Intel Avoton C2550 Quad-Core, 16GB DDR3 ECC, 5x3TB WD Red RaidZ1 +60 GB SSD for ZIL/L2ARC, APC-Back UPS 350 CS, NAS4Free 11.0.0.4.3460 embedded
NAS 2: Backup: HP N54L, 8 GB ECC RAM, 4x4 TB WD Red, RaidZ1, NAS4Free 11.0.0.4.3460 embedded
NAS 3: Office: HP N54L, 8 GB ECC RAM, 2x3 TB WD Red, ZFS Mirror, APC-Back UPS 350 CS NAS4Free 11.0.0.4.3460 embedded

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Re: which ssd for zil

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yeah i went with faster ssd drive a 64gig one. but now i see i never added zil log have posted how to add. got as far as added virtual device stuck at management and tools

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