I'm using one of my UnRAID servers as a file server. It stores a mixture of photos and documents. For the documents, I'd like to try to make the server as responsive as possible. I understand I could use an SSD cache drive to speed up the perceived write times but how can I speed up the read times?
If I setup a second SSD as one of the array disks, and set the documents user share to only use this drive would this work? It's mainly the spin up times I am trying to avoid, so if the parity drive was still an HDD would this have to be spun up before the documents could be read from the SSD?