TrueNAS (FreeNAS) - 7 years later

7 years after the original FreeNAS, It has changed a lot. Guess it's time to write some recap and experiences along the additions and modifications to my NAS. It's gonna be a long one, for those impatient, here is the TL;DR:

• Maxed RAM to 128G
• Added a PCIe NVMe expansion card, and
  
• Upgraded mirrored boot device to NVMe drives
• Added another NVMe drive for L2ARC
• Upgraded disks to 8TB
• Shucking and SATA power pin hack
  
• Disk burn-in with smartctl and badblocks
• Resilvering
• Upgraded switch to MultiGig (10G/2.5G) - Not directly related to the NAS itself
• Peak CIFS get a nice bump, from 3.5Gbps to 5.45Gbps
  

自從組 FreeNAS 已經過了七年，特別寫一篇 blog 詳述中間各種變化與升級，下面條列升級重點，給沒時間細讀的人參考。

• 記憶體加滿 - 128G
• 加了一張 PCIe NVMe 擴充卡
• 把開機 USB 換成 NVMe
• 再多加一張 NVMe 當成 L2ARC
• 硬碟就地升級成 8TB
• 拆外接硬碟，改 SATA 電源接頭
• 用 smartctl 跟 badblocks 壓力測試硬碟
• 陣列重組 (resilvering)
• 升級區網，終於讓主機板上的 10G 網卡解除限制器
• CIFS 效能從 3.5Gbps 提升到 5.45Gbps
  

 

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