paokkerkir

I was thinking of using an ssd just for plex metadata, since it is fairly large (over 100gb) and I don't want to allocate that size on my cache nvme. Anyway I'm leaning towards using 2x1tb nvme's for cache and ditching the whole extra ssd for appdata idea. I have seen multiple reports of corruption with btrfs for cache; granted these were from 2-3 years back.

Hi guys, I'm in the planning phase of my first NAS, and oh my God, what a rabbit hole this is. First of all, the hardware I'm going to use: i7 4790k - z97 - 32gb ddr3 - quadro p400 - 2.5g ethernet 512gb nvme - 240gb ssd 2x16tb hdd's with plan to add on later I decided on using Unraid for my OS for ease of use and having the option to add on disks later in my array. First of all, I understand that ECC ram is vastly preffered - especially for ZFS. Should I not use the harware I plan at all and opt for an ECC based solution, even if I'm using XFS? Planning on using XFS for the array - this is still what is recommended from what I understand. Especially for the cache I have some questions. I'm planning on using the 512gb nvme as cache for appdata/docker etc (with backups daily) and the 240gb ssd for plex cache only. This is still possible with XFS? Is it not the recommended way? Or would it be better to splash on 2x1tb nvme's and use them as ZFS cache with XFS array? I get that with Btrfs there are some issues for cache, not sure if this is still the case. Filesystems left me a bit confused. Thanks in advance for any suggestions!