-Daedalus

Well the platform I'm running is off a C2750D4I, so there's pretty decent oomph there. Next question! At this point I'll just lay out what I have. FlexRAID 5+1 array - Media. This should be pretty seamless, moving to unRAID 1TB drive, mirrored - uTorrent buffer. uTorrent doesn't like directly writing to the array, for some reason, so stuff DLs here, and is moved over when done. - Machine backups. Fairly self explanatory. These are done once a month, of the whole OS drive, on top of inc. doc. backups. - Irreplaceable stuff. Documents, pictures, home video, etc. - BTSync location. As it's always on, why not? Again, FlexRAID didn't like this being on the array. Now, what I'm looking to move to: 512GB SSD cache pool - Handling all duties of the 1TB mirror above. - Storage for VM and container data Array - Same as above Can any of the stuff listed be moved straight onto the array? Ideally, if I knew uTorrent (or similar) could write to the main array directly, that would ease my concerns a bit. (Mainly required SSD size). Thanks all!

Sorry, I should have mentioned I'm not actually coming from hardware RAID5. I'm running FlexRAID at the moment. Snapshot software RAID5 type thing. I get basically JBOD performance.

What was meant by this, might I ask?

Thanks for the responses guys. Lone drives outside the array at least give me an option. I know it's not ideal, but it's something I can use. I'm aware the drives being in the same box isn't ideal - I might come up with something later on, but for the moment this is what I've got. As for dockers and VMs: Is there something native in unRAID that allows backup of this data? I'm planning to keep all of that stuff in an SSD pool, so I'd like to schedule backups to the main array periodically. Is this possible? Obviously I could do it manually with rsync or similar, but ideally I'd like something unRAID can manage that mean minimal/no downtime of VMs or dockers.

Hi all, Have a home server at the moment, and planning on moving it to unRAID when some new hardware arrives. I've had a couple of general unRAID questions over the past while, most recently: At present, my extra-important data is 1:1 backed up, and all my other media is on a RAID5. As far as I know, unRAID supports only one parity protected pool. While that's fine for media, I want to have a second copy of my important data somewhere. Can this be accomplished with unRAID? I don't really mind how, as long as it's on a separate drive somewhere. Thanks!