Up until two days ago I was running unraid on one SSD only, as I didn't yet buy HDD's.
Now I installed the two 4TB HDD's and assigned them to the array / as parity disk.
I would like to use my SSD as a cache drive and ideally storage for VMs and some larger files I'm working on at the moment.
1. How can I move the SSD out of the array without loosing any data? (currently holds everything from VMs to some basic shares)
2. Can I and if yes, how do I have to configure the SSD to be cache drive and storage for VMs and some files?
3. How should I feel about the protectedness of the data on the SSD? I'm pretty sure its not protected by parity, is there any way I can more or less be safe to not loose any data, such as backing it up daily or weekly to the array?
It's possible that I could find answers to questions 2 and 3, but I'm not sure if those would match my exact circumstances. With regard to question 1 I couldn't find any answers (only on drives without data on them). If you argue that 2 and 3 are duplicates, feel free to not answer them (or leave me a link), but I'd really like to see answers to Q 1.
Thank you.