@G0bble wrote:
Hey Folks
I am about to build my first NAS and evaluating choices. The h/w is a J1900 mobo with 2x4GB DDR3L I purchased many years back but never used (I just chanced upon it lying in the cupboard) and the HDDs are Toshiba 8+4TB Surveillance drives in JBOD. I got surveillance drives because they are about $80-100 cheaper than NAS drives, my usage is for single person with <5 devices anytime and usage is going to mostly streaming videos, collecting network data exports from my Wifi router using collectd for 24x7 Traffic Monitoring & Analysis, and also serving as a backup device for my desktop. I also got a 16GB Intel Optane ssd with its relatively high TBW compared to SSDs to use as a caching device. The idea is to let bcache convert all random writes into sequential and also speed up random reads using the persistent cache - this should help offset any disadvantages of using surveillance drives optimized for streaming sequential data.So the question is - Can I initialize the BTRFS HDD as a backing store for bcache using Rockstor? Is there anything that would prevent me from doing this?
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