Hey folks..

 

Running unRAID 6.11

 

I have a single 500gb SSD as my cache. It hosts a single windows vm I use for blue iris that is about 250gb, appdata and a cache for shares. Shares are not super active.

 

I found some affordable 1tb ssd's (two) that I bought and want to use them for the cache

 

Thoughts on the best way to do this? 

put them in a pool and continue to use the cache the same way 

Or

Two separate cache disks, keep one for vm's and one for cache?

 

What format would you recommend? And can you point me to some instructions on how to achieve this?

 

Thanks guys. I have done a bunch of reading but struggling to figure it out.

 

Cheers

 

Mike

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To add..

 

I just got both SSD's added to the server. So they are showing as unassigned with a Format beside them.. I will fire them through a preclear now.

 

 

preclear not recommended for SSDs.

I would put those 2x1TB in a new pool for Docker/VMs to use and keep the original SSD cache for caching user share writes.

28 minutes ago, trurl said:

preclear not recommended for SSDs.

Thanks.. Preclear is done already.. Whoops!

 

 

26 minutes ago, trurl said:

I would put those 2x1TB in a new pool for Docker/VMs to use and keep the original SSD cache for caching user share writes.

Sounds like a decent setup... Is there a guide to setting up a cache pool that is updated to the newer versions on unraid? Working through a Spaceinvader video from a year or so ago on Cache pools.

well easier then it looked.. New Cache pool, 2 disks.. and off we are going.. 

Will try and sort out moving stuff around now

 

25 minutes ago, bedpan said:

moving stuff around

Nothing can move open files. Disable Docker and VM Manager in Settings.

On it.. copying as we speak.. 

12 minutes ago, trurl said:

Nothing can move open files. Disable Docker and VM Manager in Settings.