chipmaster

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  1. The chassis I’m using is a 6 bay hotswap & 2 5.25 drivebay enclosure.  It’s going to be a 6 core 12 thread AMD Ryzen cpu.  The second server is going to be a 12 drive chassis.  I haven’t found a 12 bay chassis with a 5.25 drive bay

  2. 19 minutes ago, Frank1940 said:

    @chipmaster , If you are within one drive of being  over the max for a Basic license, allow me to suggest going for the Plus license.  If you are like most of us, you will be buying it soon in any case. 😏  So save the $9.00US upgrading fee.

    I'll be building a second server with 11 data drives,1 parity,no cache drive.  This server would be primarily storage & running plex.  So a plus license makes sense to get.  The first one I'm building is more for ripping & encoding blurays & also running docker containers.

  3. I'm just trying to figure out if I should go 5 Data,1 parity,1 cache or 5 data,1 parity,no cache or 4 data,1 parity,1 cache.  I see a lot of reports saying a cache drive is a good idea & some saying not necessary.  The chassis I'm using is the Norco RPC-2106.  It has 6 hotswap bays & 2 5.25 bays.  Just trying to figure out if I want more storage or adding a cache drive.

  4. According to the pro license you can have 28 data,2 parity,24 cache drives. That would be a total of 54 drives on an unlimited license which could only handle 30 drives.  So are the 24 cache drives not considered part of the storage array?