Hi Guys,
I'm planing to built my very first unRaid system. But i need some level of speed to my system.
After some search and learn i have decided to go the way below.
You as experienced user, did you think will work?
Network
1x 10Gbe for my main machine work, i will use 10GbE network.
1x 1Gb for hub/switch (until the price of hubs 10GbE goes down)
Cache with RAID4 or 5 (plan A)
From what i understood, unRaid speed is only from the disk (since it not combine disks), so max speed will be 100Mb +/-.
To put speed on the system, it needs cache, but, everything on cache is not protected until be on the disks.
So i was thinking in create a RAID4 x4/5 SSD for speed + protect cache from the loss.
My plan here is, while the data is on cache, in case of some ssd dies, i can rebuild from RAID4 or 5 and have unRAID cache with data again, is that will work?
Cache with 2x nvme (plan B)
I saw some system with two caches disks, is that for protection?
If so, instead of complicated x4/5 disks to cache raid system. I could go with two nvme drivers for cache.
Disks array
2x 8Tb for system security level
4x 6Tb for array
Thanks everyone, i'm already looking forward to start build this system:)