October 14, 20214 yr I am wondering what the best configuration is my the drivers in my Unraid box. I have the following drives installed. 1 x 128 GB SSD 4 x 2 TB HDD I think I want one of the 2 TB HDD's as a parity drive as part of a 4 drive array with the other 3 x 2TB HDD's. What could i do with the SSD that is in the server?
October 14, 20214 yr Community Expert 11 minutes ago, Slin said: one of the 2 TB HDD's as a parity drive as part of a 4 drive array with the other 3 x 2TB HDD's Yes that is right. 11 minutes ago, Slin said: What could i do with the SSD That one belongs in a pool (such as cache), but since it isn't very large you shouldn't cache writes of normal user shares to it. Instead use it for dockers/VMs so their performance won't be impacted by slower parity array, and so they won't keep array disks spunup since dockers/VMs always have open files.
October 14, 20214 yr Author So do I create a single array with the 4 x 2TB HDD's and set one as parity?
October 15, 20214 yr Author I have created an array with those 4 HDD's. The SSD is now showing as an Unassigned Device. How do I enable/assign this?
October 16, 20214 yr Stop the Array, you should have a ADD POOL button. Check that the FileSystem is in line with what you want, add the drive and start the Array. Unraid should propose to format the drive. Check that it is indeed the drive you have to format. And you should then have a pool. More details in the manual.
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