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Got it thanks!

Hi! New to unraid, but not new to homelabs, etc. Recently had a proxmox instance and a synology NAS but now want to consolidate all of into unraid. I have the following hardware: 2x 16TB spinning HDs 2x 6TB spinning HDs 1x 1TB SSD (SATA) 1x 500GB SSD (SATA) N100 mobo with 2.5Gbe NIC + 6 SATA ports My goal with Unraid is to host: - VM/containers: Unifi controller, HAOS, Tailscale relay node, general linux testing, etc. - NAS for TimeMachine backups, general data backup data, etc. I'm new to unraid but have read some docs on the setup. Sounds like i generally want to do: - 16TB parity device - 1x Pool (EDIT: "Array" not pool) with: - 16TB - 6TB - 6TB So 28TB total with a 16TB parity device for failover Cache: - 1TB SSD - 500GB SSD The cache can be used for all docker containers. I assume you can just create shared drives from the main pool if I wanted more storage space for a VM right? If i have a VM I assume it can just use app cache for its main file storage right? Am i doing this right? Originally I was just going to RAID the two 16TB devices but it sounds like the parity device essentially handles that already?