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  1. Kich902

    Hi,

    Need your thoughts on storage best practices if u don't mind; with VMs and Dockers what would you advice on storage types for each. I've seen some pple set M.2s or NVMes ssds for VMs then HDD for dockers in the disk array. Was thinking of having the M.2s/NVMes for VMs, NAS drive(e.g WD Red) for Media storage shares then regular HDDs for Dockers. What do u think and what's ur current layout in ur server?

     

    Thanks

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    2. meep

      meep

      Yep. Though, of course, there's no single right way. And now that unRaid 6.9 is introducing multiple pools, there are even more options!

       

      The above reflects what I do, and its a good starting point.

    3. Kich902

      Kich902

      Right, gotcha, thanks. I'm yet to start on my first PC Build let alone Unraid so want to pick the best hardware for it. 

      One more thing; as for cache i'm thinking duals 500Gb SSDs in Raid0 to have 1Tb total would be ideal. What's ur thot?

    4. meep

      meep

      I’m in something of a minority, but I will never use more than one disk for cache again.

       

      with a single cache, you can pick the filesystem. With multiple drives, you must use birds, and I’ve found this to be unreliable in the extreme.

       

      i had a couple of suds for a time and had nothing but trouble. If you have an unusual shutdown ( a crash or hard reset), btrfs has a tendency to fail, throwing all kinds of disk errors. In my case, this happened twice, and in both cases the disks were unrecoverable, causing me to lose data. (I had backups)

       

      the second time I swore never again. I’ve come across a few people since who’ve had the same issues, so it’s not a cone off thing.

       

      ymmv

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