@hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange @leadegroot@bne.social Maybe do it in exchange for evidence of a $10 donation to a particular charity? As long as you don’t try to claim a tax deduction for donating your time to the charity, it would be hard to construe that as a visa violation.
Just a thought.
@SexualPolytope Unfortunately, that’s not possible. When you add a special device, all metadata (which is to say the filesystem tree itself) is written only to the special device.
This *can be okay*, as long as you have a good backup strategy. I would be comfortable using a single special device for a desktop which I back up to some other pool, for example.
@0x0 3.5” SATA, 2.5” SATA, and M.2 SATA are all the same speed (assuming they’re all the same version of the SATA specification). The MX500 is a SATA Drive, so it will have the same performance no matter which way you connect it.
For performance vdevs (cache, dedup, log, or special) to improve performance, they need to be noticeably faster than the capacity devices. For example, a SATA SSD makes a good performance vdev for a pool which gets its capacity from spinning disks. Since your pool is already SATA SSDs, a SATA SSD performance vdev won’t help. For a performance vdev to help you, it would have to be NVMe.