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i will prolly go for the pro at one point or another, but for now imma get the cheaper upgrade .We have a sayin` in my country which roughly translates to "Too many days left of month and not enough salary"

yeah its 12, did a bit more digging, but with the fact that i have 1x small nvme to store the apps, and 2x small SSDs to serve as a cache for the array i`m up to 15 drives in the box. Imma be going for the unleashed upgrade (correct me if im wrong but that is unlimited drives no ?)

Hello, Apologies, i was away on holiday and forgot to check up on this Thank you so very much for this comprehensive explanation ❤️ its exactly what i was looking for For the moment i inserted just 1x of the 5.25 SSD cage in and populated it with 6x960gb sata Seagate Baraccuda drives. Cage was hooked up to HBA and all drives were detected fine :). For the moment i might just stick with this, see how it acts out. But question for you or anyone else ... I have an old Unraid Plus license. I know they switched up the licensing a bit ... as far as i remember this covers 6 drives in the array ? but does not cover the rest ? What would be the next tier to go to Unleashed ? with the sale that is going on i see the upgrade would be roughly 15$ i think ? id be willing to pay that.

Hello, I will list specs first of all : Asus x99 mobo i5-somethig-something-k proc ~40 gb ddr4 2100 mhz 9300-16i HBA 2x 1gbe nic ports 1x 10gbe nic port (old mellanox connext-2 card) Quadro P2000 - transcoding gimmick Main array 2x 4TB IronWolf Pros (for parity) 4x 4TB IronWolf Pros (for capacity) 1x 128gb nvme (appsdata) 2x 512gb m2 sata SSDs (like general purpose cache) Like so many others the main purpose of the box is to store my vast collection of midget corn (aka it runs PLEX cause i`m a couch potato and i enjoy watching TV shows everynight before i zzzZZzzZZzz). 2nd Purpose would be to run light docker apps, like a torrent to download the corn, an app here and there basically. Recently i got myself hands on 2x 5.25" 6slot -2,5" SSD cages (intention would be to have slots populated by 1tb sata SSDs) for way cheap and i was hmm why don't i incorporate these into box and also have a SATA SSD pool of sorts to serve as a datastore for some ESXI hosts in have in my homelab. Doing some reseach i obviously found out i can't incorporate in main array so my only option would be to have a BTRFS pool. This led to some questions in ma head as im not all that familiar with FSs in general : 1) Has BTRFS gotten any better at some form of raid 5 or 6 ? By all accounts from what info i found while its capable of doing it ... its rather unstable ? *** I will not be keeping any sort of mission critical data on these drives however i'd still want raid 5 or 6 for peace of mind as if something fails i would want a way to recover my handfull of VMs that i run on the esxi hosts. 2) By having fs as bTRFS are there any known issues creating and sharing a NFS share ? *** Plan is to create a NFS share (or 2) and present them to the esxi hosts as LAN datastores? 3) The HDDs on the array are on the HBA thus ocupying 6 links leaving me with exactly 10 to feed into these SSD cages. Would there be problems having them all on the HBA ? Bonus que : what if i do 6ssds on the HBA and 6 SSDs on the onboard sata ports ? Should i perhaps stick to using 1 cage ? And last que : Should i just build another box ? I already have some older parts that should work fine ... like a old i7-4790, a mobo to match, 32gb DDR3, a PSU another mellanox 10g card ? Perhaps build it and use the other popular NAS OS that shalt not be named to experience literally best of both worlds ? *** Before deciding to go with Unraid for initial build i did try out the OS that shalt not be named first, i simply liked unraid better but for reasons i can't explain right now i am feeling a bit cheap & stingy at buying that 2nd Unraid license. Can any OG Unraid peeps share their 2cents on the above ? PS - I trully don't wanna sound like a d1ck but if you gonna reply to this thread to please form a reply that is longer than 1 sentence ? I trully opened this thread to have an inteligent convo with people smarted than me in Unraid and i am fully open to constructive criticism in regards to my choices in hardware and how i tied them in to each other

Hello, My current Unraid setup : Mobo : Asus x99 Deluxe Ram : 48 gb @2133 Mhz ( i think can't actually check as the box is down atm for other maintenance) HBA : LSI SAS 9300-16i (updated fw) Disks : 6x 4tb SATA IronWolf Pros (7.2k / 256 - 2x parity 4x data) + 2x Sata SSDs on a pcie card to serve as cache) An aquitance of mine decommed an older Dell 1u box and handed me 4x 2.5" 1.2TB 10K drives and since i dont have a particular use for them once they are tested and determine they do still have some life in them .... Well i was just wondering how much of an imbalance would i create at storage level were i to want to add them to current box ? (the hba has 2x ports open) Don't know that much about storage per say but i figure this would generate a rub but would it be a game - breaker in anyway ?

@Hoopster Would you be able to recommend a PCIE card that gives me roughly another say 8-10 SATA ports ? (if those exist ?). Imma roll the dice on that HBA, see dafuq it becomes of it, but while just mucking around google, for a smaller use-case such as DYI Unraid / NAS thing i have going, found various posts floating around that if NOT for a HBA a Sata PCIE expander card could be used ? Something that actually has a SATA Controller chip on it ? (as i learned there are also these boards that do sata sorta "virtual multiplication" but everybody warns about those as well u take 1 Sata port use your voodoo and turn it into 2, the speed for the drives drops as its basically 2 drives 1 port.

Cool cool guys, thanks for confirmation. On that 2nd part, about the HBA card. Uhm ... any thoughts ? i mean i know everyone frets on buying anything hardware related on aliexpress but like for real while i have found that particular card in my country, its like 50% more expensive and thats without the cables, which would literally take it in to the 70% -_-. And while i can afford it ... my momma said i should not squander my hard earned greenies $_$

No one else willing to throw their 2cents into this ?

Hello, Apologies if this is not the appropriate subforum to address in ... I currently have an unraid server setup using a HP DL380P G8 platform, however due to reason i wont detail here i would like to move it from a server hardware "form" to a desktop "form" / case. (its functioning great btw, did the fan hack and everything) The current setup has the OS (unraid) stored on a flash drive, the "apps" are installed on a separate PCIE card that has an NVME drive on it, and it also contains 2x 500gb ssds on yet another pcie card that serves as the "cache". The Storage itself consists of 6x 4TB iron-wolf pros (4x storage - 2x Parity). My question is, if i just move the boot flash and the 2x PCIE cards and take note which are the parity drives (to set them up as such) can i just MOVE everything over to the desktop case ? Or would there be other considerations ? My biggest fear is having to redownload my Plex Media library which is about 12-13 TB strong. (this would be just a chore to do). Bonus question : As the mobo of the desktop is a x99 platform i have about 10-12 Sata ports which would suffice for the current drives i have, but i have an ITCH ... a really big ITCH to buy the bellow listed HBA card off of Aliexpress ? As in the future i would also like to add a couple of 2,5 8x drives enclosures to the desktop case and populate those with sata ssds. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005485314377.html The Seller seems to be reputable enough and while there will be some hoops to jump through (updating firmware, swapping out thermal paste & strapping a 80mm fan to it) i just could not find a better deal on this card + cables.