Anon0511

I don't quite understand. So let me try a different way. What would be the "best way" or your suggested way with the disks available?

So, it would be ZRAID1, but theoretically couldn't I still run the shares with Cache yes or prefer?

Sup, I currently have a Deskmini A300 as Homeserver and a HP Microserver with DSM running and estimated the best Price/Performance path to go for my current situation. So I was planning to reuse as much as possible from my old Hardware because I plan to upgrade my PC to AM5 this year. I already bought Unraid a short time ago when it was 10% off as well. Storage-wise that would mean I have 2x8TB from my current NAS and 2x2TB Samsung 980 Pro + 2x1TB MX500 from my PC. I will need my Docker Apps to run on the NVMe Disks (RAID1) and planned the normal SSDs as the Cache for the Shares (RAID1). Now there is the ZFS topic and using ZFS would help me not buying a Parity Disk. Does it still make sense to use the SSDs as Cache for a ZFS pool? And how about the spindown? I have read different tellings about it. I do want to achieve power saving as much as possible. Cheers