It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/SocietyTomorrow on 2024-09-10 09:36:45.

I dug around to see if anyone asked this before, and it doesn't look like it has. I've been wondering how much of a difference I could expect in terms of performance if I took my main zfs pool, driven by a quad-CPU Xeon E7 and 2TB of DDR3 RDIMMs, and swapped the guts out with something newer, 1-2 sockets but with DDR4? It does no other jobs than being a storage pool, serving out via iscsi and nfs, so I don't think CPU speed is all that important, I know RAM amount is, but what about the speed?

Edit: Added context that it currently has a total of 84 SAS2 drives between the main chassis and 2 JBODs, with room to spare (for now, I either need more RAM or... well, more RAM, but faster!)