Preferred NVMe drives for TrueNAS SCALE?

[oguruma]

I'd like to build a box that uses enterprise-grade U.2 NVMe drives, and I'm hoping to get some recommendations as to which drives to use. I'd like to be able to use 15TB drives, so that I can use fewer PCIe lanes.

Does anybody have some NVMe drives they'd recommend? Ideally, I'd have two different drive manufacturers, to lower the chance that multiple drives would fail close to one another.

 

[PhilD13]

Samsung makes enterprise ones in 15.36TB but you need a deep pocket book. Is this along the lines of what your looking for?:
SAMSUNG MZWLR15THALA-00007 Pm1733 15.36tb Pci Express Gen4 X4/dual Port X2 Nvme 2.5inch Enterprise Internal Solid State Drive. Brand New. In Stock.

 

[a.dresner]

The NVMW are going to be for Cache or storage? for Cache, you should look at Intel Optane

 

[oguruma]

The NVMW are going to be for Cache or storage? for Cache, you should look at Intel Optane

It would be for storage. In this case it's for a marketing company that wants to move video files to a NAS instead of keeping them on individual workstations.

 

[MrGuvernment]

It would be for storage. In this case it's for a marketing company that wants to move video files to a NAS instead of keeping them on individual workstations.

Do they have a solid network behind it? 10Gb or more?
Are they only using this for storage or a work source to work directly from, or move files off, work on them, move them back?

 

[a.dresner]

For storage, I'm not sure. With SSD, you want to get enterprise class .. you might want to research and find out if there is enterprise class NVME and find the right one, mixed, write, or read intensive.

 

[Etorix]

I would assume that any entreprise drive from, in alphabetical order, Kioxia, Micron, Samsung or Solidgm (ex-Intel/SK Hynix) is good to go. There are different endurance ratings, and it will make a sizeable difference with respect to price, but with high capacity drives even the lower rating "< 1 DWPD" is plenty.
Even if the client intends to edit videos on the NAS (and it looks like it might be pure storage with ludicrously deep pockets), how many hours of raw 4K footage do you need to process to write FIFTEEN TERABYTES a day—multiplied by the number of drives?

 

[oguruma]

I would assume that any entreprise drive from, in alphabetical order, Kioxia, Micron, Samsung or Solidgm (ex-Intel/SK Hynix) is good to go. There are different endurance ratings, and it will make a sizeable difference with respect to price, but with high capacity drives even the lower rating "< 1 DWPD" is plenty.
Even if the client intends to edit videos on the NAS (and it looks like it might be pure storage with ludicrously deep pockets), how many hours of raw 4K footage do you need to process to write FIFTEEN TERABYTES a day—multiplied by the number of drives?

I'm still working to ascertain their total storage requirements, but they shoot most stuff in 8k, which is in excess of 1GB per minute.

 

[PhilD13]

No offense intended, but I would not be playing around with their data and would look at a serious system from someone such as 45 drives or at the very least an enterprise grade server made specifically to handle ssd's if you want to go that route.

 

[MrGuvernment]

No offense intended, but I would not be playing around with their data and would look at a serious system from someone such as 45 drives or at the very least an enterprise grade server made specifically to handle ssd's if you want to go that route.

I would agree with this, if this is for a marketing company, I presume they are paying you for this service / server? Or is it a friends company kind of thing?

Do you plan to offer full support once you give them this server? Do they have a proper backup system in place to backup this data, or do they only plan on using a single TrueNAS server?

 

[HoneyBadger]

I'm still working to ascertain their total storage requirements, but they shoot most stuff in 8k, which is in excess of 1GB per minute.

Hey, iX employee here; I'd be more than happy to help you find a supported enterprise all-flash solution for this, including all the goodies like HA failover and professional support. Drop me a DM if you'd like.

Otherwise, feel free to continue on the discussion here with the storage requirements, but for mass amounts of NVMe I'm going to lean towards an AMD EPYC solution to get lots of PCIe lanes.