The Best Storage Money Can Buy? - TrueNAS M40 Enterprise Storage System

The @iXsystemsInc #TrueNAS #M40 Enterprise Storage System is a beast with so many features it's hard to know where to start! #iXsystems was kind enough to ship is an evaluation unit to check out, and check it out we did! Our first look will take you through the outside AND inside of the box, talk about the hardware, features, and more. If you've been waiting for a chance to see what the M40 has to offer this is the video for you!

**HEY! THERE'S A CORRECTION FOR THIS VIDEO!**
In the portion of the video where we're calling out the different add-in cards inside the controller, the card we labeled as the U.2 NVMe adapter is actually the NTB interconnect for the controllers! The card that's labeled as the NVDIMM card is the NVMe read-cache card!

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**TIMESTAMPS!**
0:00 Introduction
0:32 Unboxing the M40 and overview
0:59 Physical Dimensions, mounting options, and weight of the M40
1:28 Storage overview of the M40
1:52 Power supplies, consumption, and more of the M40
2:17 Read caching disks of the M40
2:29 Standard O/I of the M40
2:44 NIC options for the M40
2:52 External SAS connections of the M40
3:02 Looking inside the M40's controller
3:26 CPU details of the M40
3:46 RAM details of the M40
3:52 NVDIMM details of the M40
3:59 Overview of the interfaces cards within the M40
4:19 Cooling and backplane interfaces of the M40
4:30 Information on the evaluation unit we received
4:56 M40 and TrueNAS Enterprise features and who's it for
5:48 Differences between M40 and other storage systems on the market
7:34 Closing! Thanks for watching! Make sure to subscribe!

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[TrueNAS]

Awesome video! This is a must-see for anyone looking to know more about the M-Series product line!

[kittysreview]

This channel is 🔥. More TrueNAS content!

[JeremyQuinn]

this channel should have 100k subs, minimum

[trumanhw]

Without tests -- it is kind of difficult to say what I think ... as, all of us have seen surprisingly poor (and good) performance.
That said, I was curious, why no metadata pools ..? Or other Fusion (Special Allocation Pools) ...?
CAN that CPU actually saturate that 100GbE ...? How many threads are in use when you do ? What percent is it at..?
Would you really not consider running their new dRAID ..? Or was that even relevant ..? (Seems worthwhile with spinning drives in your mix)

[dennisdavis]

My company had a previous model and that thing screamed loudly but it was POWERFUL. This thing looks amazing and the features are impressive!

[JasonsLabVideos]

Just watched this from start to finish, this video is BANG on for perfectness !! Well done !!

[thatLion]

Amazing overview. I want to see more enterprises using these

[fastshuther]

Idk if you have done r50 but ID not you should trying to see a video about it

[chrisparkin]

"A mirror pair of 1.6TB NVMe disk for read cache" Really? I thought you should NEVER mirrored read cache (L2ARC) and stripe them instead?