Hardware check for migrating to Unraid

[Bizquick]

 

Both of those cards are going to run the same. I would take the cheapest of the 2. also only use those for the Data array. Not the parity or cache drive.

best to use onboard sata 3 ports for SSD's. and parity you want good I/O too. you can put data drives on the add on cards. it will be a little bit slower than your on board. but generally sense you getting just the 2 port models you should be fine. I found out this weekend I had my drive setup all wrong. and I ended up speeding up my parity check for my 28tb array. use to take 1.5 days now I got it down to 17.5 hours. I really should have look into the forms and the manuals more a little bit more when they talked about sata ports and add on. it looks like you did more work than I did looking into that.

 

 

 

 

 

[blazerguns]

Very useful suggestion. Thanks, I was about to connect my cache drive to this. Yikes.