Beer

Oh, that's good to know.. thanks. The wiki must just be horribly outdated then https://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/Parity#Dual_parity

Hi everyone. I have been going through what seems like an eternity of uncertainty around how I want to handle my home NAS/hypervisor/server. I have already purchased my hardware: * ASRock Rack EPC612D4U (8x SATA) * Xeon E5-2630L V3 8-core * 32GB DDR4 ECC * 6x 4TB HGST NAS HDD * 2x 256GB Samsung 850 Pro SSD * 3x 32GB USB drives (originally for ESXi/FreeNAS installs) Original plan was this: * ESXi (on internal USB) * FreeNAS in a VM (on mirrored USB) * Onboard SATA controller and all 8 drives passed through to FreeNAS VM * 6x HDD in RAIDz2 for media storage/home backups * 2x SSD mirrored, and shared back to ESXi for redundant VM storage Goals: * Primary: Plex Server/NAS * Host VMs * Home Backups (Crashplan, or something) So far all I have done is install/setup ESXi and FreeNAS, and setup the hardware passthrough. I'm not too deep into this yet and I want peoples opinions on what I could do with my hardware in an unRAID setup, and what the pros/cons would be versus my original plans. I'm not opposed to starting over on the software side if I have good reasons to, or even a couple hardware changes. I'm not terribly familiar with unraid and its caching/parity situation. I did read in the wiki that dual parity is "coming", but it links to 7-9 year old threads saying "it's coming" so that's a bit worrying. My biggest issue is that I'm not sold on RAIDz2. I like the protection, but the future expandability is concerning. What I'm looking for is to take what I have, and build a theoretical unRAID box out of it, and tell me why that is as good or better than my original plan. Thanks