khushaal

I have had UnRaid running for a few years with a 280gb Intel optane drive running infront of the array as a cache pool. My write volumes have been going up lately and I find myself running into more days where I have to manually trigger the mover to prevent the cache filling out. To manage this, I have added a 2tb Crucial P5 and added it to my cache pool in single configuration. My cache writes are now going to the Crucial drive first (maybe high water behavior, that is what my main array is set for). I would like to fill up my optane drive before writing to the larger Crucial drive for both speed and drive longevity reasons. Is it possible to configure the cache pool to fill up a particular cache drive first?

This is a little bit of a moneybags solution, but, if budget isnt an issue then an intel optane 900p add-in card. Added bonus of not taking a slot on my jbod controller either. https://www.intel.ca/content/www/ca/en/products/memory-storage/solid-state-drives/gaming-enthusiast-ssds/optane-900p-series.html I bought a 280gb model for my cache drive and am now regretting not getting the larger one. I want to replace it with the 480gb model but I cant stomach the thought of wasting the existing drive. Didnt take UHD filesize into account when I was sizing my cache. Maybe one day Ill get my 10G network card working with unRaid and actually see useful performance from my cache too.