So I have my server migrated to 2016E and I'm contemplating shuffling my pool around and reformatting my drives as REFS with integrity streams on.. I know I've seen Drashna post somewhere that his pool is using REFS now, so I'm assuming that development is far enough along to be fairly stable. My server is primarily a media and backup server, and the data integrity stuff REFS should provide would be a major plus. I'm just wondering which build version of DP I should use, as well as any caveats I should know about before making the move(especially if there are any drastic hits to performance VS 64K NTFS) Also on the same note, one of the few services I haven't set up yet on the server is WSUS. I have run the content store on the pool before with success, but was wondering if that would still be possible with REFS as the underlying filesystem of the drives since WSUS requires an NTFS formatted partition.
Thanks in advance to Drashna and anyone else who can provide some input!
Edit: I should also note that my network is 10Gb capable, and although I'm not quite maxing it out, I am taxing it a bit at times, so read performance is quite important, write not quite as much since I'll be adding a few SSD's for cache before too long.
