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9x39 2 hours ago

You can fill it with SSDs, and SFP28 is so common the prices are cheap:

https://www.fs.com/c/25g-sfp28-3215

But no, spinning disks won't saturate it, even if you were doing 100% sequential reads.

(I originally said fill it with NVMe - I was wrong)

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kube-system an hour ago | parent [-]

It looks like you can put 2 nvme drives in it, for caching.

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9x39 an hour ago | parent [-]

While that's the ARC, I would be surprised if they blocked you from building vdevs with SSDs.

Looking at the specs: https://store.ui.com/us/en/category/network-storage/products...

Hard Drive Capacity

(16) 2.5/3.5" HDD / SSD support

(2) M.2 NVMe SSD support

(2) Expansion ports support

I think you're right we only get two SSDs on NVME as the cache, but it looks like we can run the rest (16) as SATA SSDs, which is often fine if you primarily care about random IOPS and capacity over pure throughput.

Would you consider that a dealbreaker?

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kube-system an hour ago | parent [-]

No I think it's perfectly fine, if I'm accessing files over a network I don't expect them to be blazing fast anyway.

	▲	bhouston 24 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		FYI: you should upgrade to 10gbe if your network is slow. It isn't that expensive these days: https://ben3d.ca/blog/home-network-lessons