I have a 8 exos x18 disks,"RAID10" configuration, in a OWC thunderbolt 3 enclousure connected to a hacintosh on macOS12.6, z490 board, i9 10900k with 64gb ram and things are ok... but I turn the machine on and off alot and bounce back and forth from mac to windows on this machine, I'd rather leave the drives powered on and the host machine running... So M1 might be a good option...
I'm temped to buy a refurbed trash can and add a bunch of ecc ram to it and hook my pool up thunderbolt... but the trash cans are limited to thunderbolt 2 and only have gigabit ethernet. They aren't the fastest machines but for under $500 bucks it'd make a good zfs machine... but... the mini m1 (though lacks ecc ram) I can get 10gbe and thunderbolt 4 but only 16gig of ram, and not that i care... but i'd be "greener"
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So... Hows the performance of zfs with the limited ram in the new macs?
Thanks.