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Thanks Hoopster. If I did put all 6 SSD's into one cache, could I use RAID 5 or 6 to protect that data? Could I use it for share caching as well as VM storage? I'm trying to think of the most flexible use of all 6 drives.

Hey all, I just built a new unRAID server to replace an old Windows File server I've been using at home. It is equipped with 6x 6TB HDD's and 6x 800GB SSD's. I got everything installed and unRAID is operational. I was trying to figure out how I wanted to allocate the disks to my array and got kind of stuck. I was reading the docs about parity drives and cache drives and I'm not sure what the best thing to do here is. I would like to leverage the speed of my SSD's but does it make sense to add all 6 SSD's as cache? I think I want some cache for faster perceived writes to my big 6TB disks, and I would want at least RAID1 on the cache, so I would need at least 2 allocated to cache. I would like to have some of the SSD's be permanent storage for VM's and other IOPs intensive workloads, how can I ensure they are used as such? How many Parity drives do I need? Is a single 6TB drive OK? Please advise, unRAID is completely new to me. Thanks!