October 17, 20214 yr Hello everyone, yes I am total NEWB here and yes this is my first post. I am currently in the findy-my-way-around phase of building my first server. So my question here is: How to setup unraid caches/shares/pools in the easiest way possible for me to expand and get the most benefits out of? My main concern at the moment: I followed Spaceinvader One's unraid guide, which is great, but when it comes to assigning shares/pools/caches I ask myself: is it worth that much of hassle? Especially in my use case. Every time I add or swap an HDD I do not want to make a road-map what goes where when cached where and how and make a chart and study it for an hour before deciding. Also I think that the way he does it, leads to some limits for specific use cases. So he limits movies on 1 pool and dockers on the other... My thinking is exactly the opposite: I want a server wich expands by itself when I add capacity as good as possible. Of course I see the benefits like faster VMs, which is not important to me. Longer lifespan of HDDs, which is nice. Less power because of standby drives etc... But again: I do not want to print a road-map every time something changes and mess things up. So again: How to setup unraid caches/shares/pools in the easiest way possible for me to expand and get the most benefits out of? __hardware server HPE DL380 gen9 12xLFF Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2630L v3 @ 1.80GHz 8c/16t RAM DDR4 2x16GB ECC P140i controller currently for testing / will upgrade later when I know that I will keep this machine __available HDDs 1x 60GB SSD 1x 256GB NVME 4x 2TB SATA 4x 3TB SATA + buying one or two new 1TB SSDs for bigger cache drives is not a problem __what I want to do I want an AIO solution for - private cloud friends and family - plex media server - syncthing - nextcloud - jdown2 ++ etc... - VMs but very limited use cases. likely will start them when I need them. 1 to 2 max. I think ignorable for now Thank you very much for your time and helping me design my homelab!
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