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#5 : The reason not to use a SSD for parity is technical. SSDs have a life cycle based on write/erase for each data cell. Most SSDs are multi-level cells and those SSD have a maximum write/erase count of about 10 000 for each cell. This is approximative, it could be more or it could be less. Each time something is written on any data drive, the parity is recalculated and then written back on the parity drive. The parity drive has a very large amount of write/erase on it and this would shorten the life of your SSD a lot when using it as a parity drive.

Hi, I installed UnRaid 3.7 on a USB drive connected to a dedicated machine. For the moment I got 2X2.0TB WD drives installed and 1X2TB Seagate Drive for Parity for 4 TB of storage. I transfered around 1.5 TB of data without problem from another 2TB drive connected on another Win 7 computer. Now when I try to open a file from an UnRaid share from that same Win 7 computer I get No Response. So if I open a Video file with Media player , No Response. If I try to open an image file with whatever program, no response. But with a 2KB text file I can open it. XBMC Live from 3rd computer is always freezing when I try to add files to the library so no response again. I see the shares but as soon as I try to add files or update an existing library XBMC freeze. My Unraid computer is a 20 Watts AMD Athlon II U160 CPU with MSI 785GM-P45 MoBo and 4GB DDR3. The XBMC computer is a ZBox ID11 from Zotac. I really don't know what is the problem...I still can send files from my Win 7 computer to the NAS an no errors but I cannot read those files....