In my previous article of , I documented how I was using a Synology DS1520+ as my NAS. After fighting with it and the main array of weird issues Synology desires to implement, which I won’t get into here, I have recently sold the setup and gone with a much more robust system, or systems, in my RV.
I have built three new server systems, but first lets start with what hardware I am currently running.
I like to data hoard but I don’t take it the extreme. I am able to prune things I really don’t need. Living in an RV doesn’t help with having excess. In fact part of the liberating thing of the RV life is to get rid of things that we don’t really need. Believe me it was hard giving up on my networks, and servers, server racks, and full tower PCs, but going miniature and finding out what you really need is freeing.
A few tricks to reduce SSD (NOT NVMe/M.2) wear when running ZFS:
Remember to enable autotrim option on the pool. You should also setup a cron job to run zpool trim tank0 weekly or bi-weekly. Replace tank0 with your tank/dataset name. zpool get autotrim tank0 # check trim zpool set autotrim=on tank0 # enable trim on tank0 zpool trim tank0 # run trim manually Use a large ashift of at least 12 but 13 is better.
