chryz

Hey guys, I’m honestly not sure what direction to take my Unraid build anymore. I started years ago with a small X99 setup and 16GB of RAM, then slowly upgraded and added more stuff until it turned into a full EPYC server. Now I’m trying to clean it up and figure out the best long-term storage layout instead of just randomly adding drives. Current setup is basically: - EPYC server on ASRock Rack ROMED8-2T - 128GB ECC RAM - GTX 1070 passed through to a Windows 11 VM - 12TB parity - 8TB + 4TB + 8TB XFS array - 2TB Samsung 990 Pro ZFS pool for Docker/VMs - 1TB Samsung 980 Pro cache/ingest pool - Extra 1TB NVMe, SATA SSDs, and two matching 8TB HGST drives unassigned Also, is there any way to get a real read/browsing cache in Unraid? I don’t mean the normal write cache where new files hit SSD first and mover sends them to the array later. I mean something more like: when I browse folders, search files, open photos, thumbnails, etc., it feels faster and doesn’t have to hit the spinning drives every time.