Hello, all.
Question: Would I have a supportable configuration if I had a single SSD as an array?
I've done a lot of reading here on using SSDs in arrays, but don’t seem to be finding anything for just a single drive array. I have a minimal requirement and selected unRAID on a small form factor (SFF) fanless i5, to replace my Media server PC and Home Assistant Pi.
The backstory: I currently have a 250G M.2 SSD (Cache) for a 1T laptop HDD. In this SFF configuration, the M.2 is tucked in under the HDD. Even after attaching a heatsinked, the M.2 runs at 60C, and that warms the HDD from 41C to 65C when the room goes over 72F. It’s getting kind of close.
I was hoping to rip them both out in exchange for a single 1T SSD. No more cache, No Parity (like now), No redundancy (like now). In case of failure, I’d just re-install, leveraging the appdata backups I mirror off to another network drive after the nightly backup.
I’m fully installed and running, and am still under 100G of storage usage on my unRAID server. Any media server content I want to keep, is copied off to a separate NAS, so I'm not seeing my storage requirements changing. Maybe someday I can more the NAS into the unRAID, but for now, that’s not a priority.
So, amy I missing anything in regards to the 1T SSD?
I've read no TRIM on an array, so I’d probably want to periodically shut the array and do that manualy?
Any other gotchas?
Tnx!