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BeowolfSchaefer · 2023-10-04 22:47

After losing a drive and not being able to resurrect a volume from a
software RAID I'm switching tactics. I have pretty much everything
that was in there backed up to an external drive and also the old
server. I have an HP mini PC with an attached USB-C 5 bay enclosure.
It has one 4TB SSD and 4x10TB drives. One of those 10TB died and I
have 2 replacements on the way.

The HP mini is running Ubuntu. I think I'd like to move to a ZFS
setup.

\- Does that make sense?

\- does ZFS have any advantages with an SSD cache drive or does it
even support it?

\- Are there any good guides on configuring something this?

\- Is there a good monitoring app/service for this?

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borouhin · 2023-10-05 01:08

It's possible (google for "L2Arc"), but your bottleneck will most
likely be the USB-C connection between your enclosure and your PC. So
I doubt that adding SSD cache will greatly increase performance in
your case.