I'm actively looking at moving my NAS to unraid from Windows 8.
Disks will be:
3 x WD red 3tb (1 as parity)
2 x 1.5tb
1x Sandisk 240gb SSD as cache (to be purchased).
I have an N36L which I've owned since new, as far as I can remember I've newer upgraded the BIOS - certainly never flashed it.
My two initial questions are:-
1- Will the N36L "as is" allow me to add a sixth hard disk or do I need to do something in the BIOS to allow this (I'm aware of what to do physically i.e. place a second disk into the ODD bay - split the molex power and run an esata cable from the back of the server.)
2. I'm sure I've read somewhere that the additional disks will only run at half sata speed - unless something other fix is applied. Can anyone help with pointing me in the right direction this and is any speed drop off significant?
I'll be using the server for sabnzb, sonarr, radarr. I've recently changed my Plex server from the N36L to a separate PC which serves content from the NAS (mainly because the N36L lacks the power for transcoding).
Hope you can advise.
Thanks