I'm about 5 days into my unraid journey and am super stoked about the whole system. I'm progressively moving data (mostly plex media, retro gaming resources and roms, and local home user files) off of my current desktop "server" to external USB 3 drives. I'm adding drives and zeroing them in preparation for a big dedicated unraid server migration.
I will be mostly serving files, running radarr / lidarr / sonarr + nzbget, plex, general file serving, time machine for 2 hackintoshes, and run a few VMs to learn on. I have 3x8gb of ram with 3 slots open if that makes a difference. Local home use with occasional remote plex streaming.
Question 1
Is there a proper ratio of storage : cache : parity?
Question 2
Does my planned (penciled in) drive allocation make sense
SATA III Drives I plan have dedicated to unraid:
Platter drives
8TB WD
5TB Seagate
5TB Seagate
5TB WD
2TB Hitachi
1TB Hitachi
SSD Drives
120 GB PNY
60 GB OCZ
Other drives that could go in the mix
250 GB SSD
could be added for additional cache
8TB WB USB 3
I was thinking about using for occasional backup of important files brough to friend's house. I have google accounts for most important documents and photos but nothing formalized
I was thinking about the following:
Parity - 10 TB
8TB WD
2TB Hitachi
Cache - 180GB or 430 GB
120 GB PNY
60 GB OCZ
250 GB (do I need this here really?)
storage drives - 16 GB (for now)
5TB Seagate
5TB Seagate
5TB WD
1TB Hitachi
Occasional backup of "important" files - not plex media
8TB WB USB 3.0
I have one open SATA port on my mobo, should I just shuck this and put this in the array and use google or other cloud backup for document and photo backup?
Thanks in advance!