So Im thinking about adding a special vdev, in mirror. I got a few intel s4600 disks here, but im thinking about buying two intel dc p4500 perhaps. but I noticed in the specification that s4600 has lovwer read access time of ~36 us p4500 has ~77us , but much more io and throuput.
for 4k files and metadata the s4600 might not be that bad after all .
This heavily depends on what your pool looks like now. If you’re on all SSDs, you’ll probably not be helping things. If you’re on rust, it’ll definitely help…
metadata ! But its a home server to no professional usage, more a convenience, especially directory traversal, browsing lots of small files, thumbnails for images etc that would be nive to have on a ssd.