when you mix and match hard drive caches is there performance differences with unraid?
so my hard drives are WD gold or ultrastar with a 512mb cache.. but they harder to come by now
if i go with a seagate they are only 256mb caches tehy dont have offer 512mb
do you notice performance issues or does unraid compensate etc?
and all my drives are 7200 rpm
so i looking at Seagate 7200 rpm drives since WD/Ultrastar are harder to come by in the Gold/Ultrastar brand
OP can disregard this as off-topic because I wasn't paying attention but it's a lot of important information so I'll leave it here for historical purposes, and might reference it in the future. My bad, sorry.
In a normal cache system, important data -- not files or folders, just blocks -- is kept available someplace performant. If you need to write lots, it's something that writes fast. If you need to read lots, it's something that reads fast. Not ALWAYS both the
