Rob SFO Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 (edited) My server only has SSDs. I have a lot of them and there's no reason for me to spend money/power on mechanical disks (and it's 2021...disk is dead). I have a single M.2 1TB NVMe drive, and a whole bunch of SATA SSDs (that do support TRIM). I currently have my server setup with the NVMe as cache, and 2 x SATA SSDs for the array (no parity yet). I'm ready to add in the rest of my SSDs & protect them but I've been holding back as I research the all-SSD array issues. At this point, I am thinking I should just build a R10 cache from all the SATA SSDs, and use the NVMe as an unassigned device for VMs. Does that sound like a good plan? I'm assuming that I can simply add the SSDs to the cache, then once built I can remove the NVMe? Will that work? I then have to migrate the data from the array to the cache, then remove/destroy the array and add those final 2 drive to the cache R10. Any tricks to doing that? Anything I'm not thinking of? ### EDIT ### 👈 Do I have to have at least one array drive? Can UNRAID function without an array? I guess if I have to I could add an old piece of spinning rust that I have (4TB) and maybe use it as a backup target for the NVMe VMs? Thanks! Edited February 4, 2021 by Rob SFO Quote Link to comment
Vr2Io Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 1 hour ago, Rob SFO said: I guess if I have to I could add an old piece of spinnin You could add a USB stick as array disk and simple not use it. For best performance, you should use UD to mount R10 and NVMe. 1 Quote Link to comment
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