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Please note that consumer SSDs usually do not have PLP (Power Loss Prevention). This means that in the event of a power failure, any data sitting on the write cache on the SSD may be lost. This could put your data at risk. Using enterprise solid state drives remedies this issue as they often come with PLP. Conclusion Use the rsync command to transfer the SD card Linux install boot partition to the new boot SD card. The use case of your setup will depict which optimizations you can use as some of the optimizations in this post will increase the risk of data loss (such as disabled sync writes and RAIDz levels). Fast and Risky

Synchronous – Writes that are made to a filesystem that are only marked as completed and successful once it has actually been written to the physical media. If you’re like me and use a Synology NAS as an NFS or iSCSI datastore for your VMware environment, you want to optimize it as much as possible to reduce any hardware resource utilization. The reason why I did this was to test the new version out, and attempt to increase both throughput and redundancy in my environment.By utilizing a SLOG for ZIL, you can have dedicated SSDs which will act as your intent log for writes to the zpool. On writes that request a synchronous write, they will be marked as completed when sent to the ZIL and written to the SLOG device. Asynchronous – Writes that are made to a filesystem that are marked as completed or successful before the write has actually been completed and committed to the physical media. Take note of the mount point and/or NFS export path, as this is the directory your Raspberry Pi will need to mount to access it’s NFS root. This is also the directory you will be copying your SD Card Linux install root FS to. Copy the Linux install to the NFS Export

First log in to the DSM web interface, and configure your NIC adapters in the Control Panel. As mentioned above, only configure the default gateway on one of your adapters. To get exact numbers, I may possibly write up another blog post in the future when I can connect some SSDs to test the controllers max speed. At this time I don’t have any immediately available. For software, I’ve been using Cyberlink’s PowerDirector software. I’ve used this in the past for screen recording, as well as editing videos I use for demos. Now press escape, then type “:wq” and hit enter to save and close the vi text editor. Run the following command to make the script executable. chmod 755 speedup.sh I’m really looking forward to using these in my upcoming blog and YouTube projects. Posted by Stephen Wagner at 4:02 PM

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When you use an NFS Root with your Raspberry Pi, it stores the entire root filesystem on a remote NFS export (think of it as a network filesystem share). This means you’ll have as much space as the NFS export, and you’ll probably see way faster performance since it’ll be running at 1Gb/sec instead of the speed of the SD Card.

If you want to just run your stuff right now, my recommendation would be a AMD Ryzen 5 5600 CPU coupled with a Gigabyte Aorus B550M Elite board. We all love the word multipathing, don’t we? As most of you iSCSI and virtualization people know, we want multipathing on everything. It provides redundancy as well as increased throughput. How do we turn on NFS Multipathing? When I first loaded this up on my VDI environment, the software instantly detected the Nvidia GRID card, and asked me if it could use it. From that point on the preview window was fluid, transitions and add-ins were rendered on the fly during previewing, and the final production encoding was literally over 20 times faster using 1080p. Keep in mind this VM only has one Nvidia K180q profile attached to it, so I’m only using less than 25% of the cards full capability. Other benefits to video editing and encoding on VDI I have an Intel 12600K that I want to use for a small NAS, and my plan was to use an Asus Hyper M.2 Gen 4 card to add in 4 NVMe SSD’s to use in a ZFS RAIDz1 pool.

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With great suspense, the server powered on as per normal. No errors or health alerts were presented. In the future I plan on digging deeper in to optimization as I still see other services I may be able to trim down, after confirming they aren’t essential to the function of the NAS. In my case, I have all 4 NICs in my DS1813+ configured and connected to a switch. My ESXi hosts have 10Gb DAC connections to that switch, and can now utilize it at faster speeds. During intensive I/O loads, I’ve seen the full aggregated network throughput hit and sustain around 370MB/s. As a note, I had to delete the configuration for the existing management settings (don’t worry, it doesn’t take effect until you hit test) and configure the VLAN interface for my LANs VLAN and IP. I tested the settings, confirmed it was good, and it was all setup. Mount the new boot partition of the boot SD card to a new directory. In my case I used the directory called “new”.

This card is also marketed as the SI-PEX40139 and IO-PEX40139 Part Numbers. IO-PCE585-5I Specifications Later on in this guide, you’ll be copying the boot partition from the SD Card Linux image, on to this newly created boot SD Card for the NFS Root. Prep the Linux install for NFS Root While the server has a PCIe 16x wide slot, it only has an 8x bus going to the slot. This means we will have half the capable speed vs the true 16x slot. This however does not pose a problem because we’ll be maxing out the 10Gb NICs long before we max out the 8x bus speed. HPE ML310e Gen8 v2 with IOCREST IO-PEX40152 HPE ML310e Gen8 v2 with IOCREST IO-PEX40152

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Version 1 went great, but you can see some things needed to be changed. I decided to go with a dedicated server, not virtualize TrueNAS, and go for a newer CPU with a higher Ghz speed. The computers accessing the NVMe Storage Server would include VMware ESXi hosts, Raspberry Pi SBCs, and of course Windows Computers and Workstations. They also note that contents may vary depending on country and market. Unboxing, Installation, and Configuration I initially went with an Asus Prime Z690M D4 board since I already have 64GB of DDR4 RAM on hand (and DDR5 is still quite expensive for not much gain). These NVMe SSDs are targeted for consumers (normal users, gamers, power users, and IT professionals) and are a great fit! Just remember these do not have PLP (power loss protection), which is a feature that isn’t normally found in consumer SSDs. Specifications