thedangerine

Right now I have 3 2tb drives and 2 3tb drives for 12tb total but I have one 3tb as a parity drive so really only 9tb and about 8.7ish after overhead and reserved space for a few things Edit: I do hope to expand soon, just need more drives, I would like to get a few more 3tb and then take the 2tb drives out and use that for just messing around and trying to learn stuff on another machine that way if I screw it up bad I have nothing to lose

I currently have 32Gb in mine mainly because I had 4 8gb sticks sitting around unused and figured that way when I start creating more VM's I will have plenty. The hardware I am using is a bit overkill for my use case, most of it is left over from my old desktop. I currently just use unraid for my NAS and have an Ubuntu VM that I use for a lab for school since it moved online Edit: the memory is DDR4 3000Mhz non ECC I think it is G.skill aegis so pretty cheap but it works well and I have had no issues so far

I'm looking to buy unraid soon and either get the basic or the plus license and need help deciding between the two. My main question is what drives count toward your total, if I have two ssd's as a cache will those count towards my total. If I got basic would I top out at 4 hdd's with 2 ssd's as a cache, or would I be able to connect up to 6 hdd's even with 2 ssd's as a cache, and if so how many drives could I have in the cache pool