It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/doubledundercoder on 2024-06-05 15:01:01.

Hey all. I’ve got a usb 3.1 jbod attached to a decent laptop with 16gb of ram with a roughly 16tb zfs RAID. Works fine most of the time. I get 100mb/s reads if only one process is accessing the volume. If more than one process try’s it just tanks.

Upgrading to a SAS enclosure or just getting a desktop case where I plug in the drives directly to the sata controller, what kind of performance increase can I expect for multiple processes on the volume? Am I dreaming thinking it will make a huge difference? It’s mostly for hosting Plex. Anyone gone from this setup to a direct attached on zfs?

4 7.2k sata drives