I’m going to use this server for Media, Torrents for the Library, System Backups, Cad file storage, Doc storage, and VMs, and I may play some games.
My current Hardware is from my x99 system.
Mother board is an ASUS x99 PRO USB 3-1
CPU i7-5930K Water Cooled
32 GB DDR4
Main GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 12GB
Secondary GPU Nvidia GTX 1660 Ti 6GB
My first question is about the Parity drives, I have heard it said that 6 or less drives require 1 parity drive, more than 6 require 2. Is that 6 total including the parity ? I have a Total of 7 WD Red 4TB drives.
My second question is how much Cache is really needed? Currently I have at my disposal are 2x Nvme drives at 2 TB each, in the mother board PCIE slots, 2x 1TB SSDs, and 1x 2TB SSD.
Just keep in mind that we have 10 SATA6G ports, and I was wanting to use one of them for a Blu-Ray drive to copy DVDs and Blu-Rays.
Thanks for any answers.
