A. They were included some time ago, since unRAID v6.2
- Amazing, thanks Johnnie! A. Samba multichannel support is experimental and should be used for testing only, but you can enable it manually on unRAID if you want.
- Yep, yep, I'm fully aware when I secure shelled into the Synology OS and modified the config files. I've been testing now for a couple of months before I dump the TeraStations (my go to XFS stalwarts) I've filled the array on the Synology multiple times, both in 'standard' single channel mode and multi-channel mode, in both RAID-5 and RAID-6 BTRFS and ext-4, broken the array and then repaired it, file integrity done with full hash has been perfect. I've run across no issues with multi-channel. I was a little worried about data fragmentation and speed as it is streaming in via 2 separate channels and i wasn't sure how the re-sync and write is done, but I've had 100% success so far. currently in 'testing' mode with 4 different paths.
1) UnRAID on a new Coffee Lake system (NVMe Cache) - 3GB/s Cache pool ?MB/s to drive pool
2) UnRAID on the old workstation (no cache) - ?MB/s to drive pool
3) The Synology 1812+ with BTRFS & Multi-Channel - 160-237MB/s to drive pool (I may try the SSD cache feature to get that to a solid 237MB/s)
4) LSI 9261 & Win on new Coffee Lake system. 1GB/s straight from the drive pool. A. You can schedule parity checks, once a month is recommended. Thanks, I've not started messing with UnRAID yet, the new components are on their way. I kinda thought it would be in there somewhere!