Currently I'm looking at migrating away from a freenas 8 (Love the speed don't like the inablity to add extra drives.) box for my storage and have a few questions.
First question is cache drive.
I'm thinking of getting a 80-120GB SSD to do this but I read that if you copy more to it then avaible it fails. Does that mean if I get a 80GB SSD and try an copy 100GB folder it will fail? If so does that mean I should wait till after I transfered all my files before implimented the cache drive?
Also how much does the read/write speed of the cache drive matter?
As for parity drive. Would a 3tb 7200RPM drive be best for this? I plan on using 2tb WD Green (4x Ears and 5x earx and one eads)
Also should I stick to just Advanced formatted drives? Or is mix and matching not an issue?
Also if anyone has any experence with sickbeard/sabnzbd+ how well does this work? Its been amazing on my freenas box and I'm scared to have it working subpar.