Intel Optane P1600X & P4800X as ZFS SLOG/ZIL - Austin's Nerdy Things
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As a follow-up to my last post (ZFS SLOG Performance Testing of SSDs including Intel P4800X to Samsung 850 Evo), I wanted to focus specifically on the Intel Optane devices in a slightly faster test machine. These are incredible devices, especially for $59 as of latest check – for the P1600X 118GB M.2 form factor. […]
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The original was posted on /r/homelab by /u/MzCWzL on 2023-11-27 19:05:53.

Original Title: In case you’ve been eyeing the Optane M.2 drives as write caches (consistent 10-20 us writes), I ran some benchmarks using fio on ZFS. The IOPS (& write latency!) are great, throughput isn’t, but enough for a 10G connection. What is r/homelab using these for?