Hey!
Im new to UnRAID but have tried to find information to help me choose the right way forward.
Today i have 4 spinners, and som SSDs not even plugged in yet.
I plan to run 10GbE within a year or two so this is for planning ahead.
To my understanding if i run all spinners in an array (lets skip the SSDs for now), im limited to the read/write speed of one drive.
But if I add the SSDs to a cache pool I do get the better speeds...fine and all BUT if someone during a LANparty want to grab a bunch of movies and at the same time someone access the LANcache (steamcache) that will be bottlenecked right?
My questions is essentially this
1. Can I have all spinners in one cache pool, skipping the Array all together? pros/cons?
2. If I have 4 spinners in an Array and 2x 500GB SSDs in raid1 wont the SSD be bottlenecked by trtying to access data on the single spinner holding the data in question?
thank you in advance!