April 27, 20233 yr Hello, I'm new in the Unraid world so I want to understand if my "plan" is doable or not, or even if doable I want to know if there is any strategy better then what I planned. In my server I have this disks: 2 x 500GB NVME 2 x 12TB HDD 2 x 2TB SATA SSD My "plan" is: - configure the NVME as cache for the all files which should be moved in the array by the mover, but it should also store the all the docker images I will use in my environment within the docker-required storage (container's DBs and assets) - configure the 2 SATA SSD as a storage pool which will store all files that must be accessed quickly (for example pictures and nextcloud data) - configure the 2 HDD as my array, which will store Linux ISOs, backups and similar Is this a good idea? Is it even doable? Regarding the 2 pools I have in mind: both of them should be mirrored (I would like RAID1, since both of them are made by 2 disks of the same size). It's not clear to me where (in the GUI) I can set up the in RAID1 for the 2 cache pools. Is there any reference in the doc about this? I wasn't able to find it here Thanks in advance for your help!
April 27, 20233 yr Community Expert 5 hours ago, quietwalker said: It's not clear to me where (in the GUI) I can set up the in RAID1 for the 2 cache pools. When you set up multiple drives in a cache pool it will default to RAID1 if using btrfs. You can dynamically change the profile used by a btrfs pool while it is running if you want some other profile.
April 28, 20233 yr Author 9 hours ago, itimpi said: When you set up multiple drives in a cache pool it will default to RAID1 if using btrfs Thanks for the clarification! So I should just add the 2 devices in the 2 slots and then Unraid will automatically create the RAID1 configuration. Regarding the setup do you think it's ok to use a dedicate 2nd pool as fast-storage for the files I need more? Or is there any other more efficient way to achieve this goal? As I wrote I would use the 2 SSD of 2TB to archive files which I plan to use more and I don't wont to turn on the spinning disks to avoid delay. Is it ok?
April 28, 20233 yr Community Expert Solution Should be fine. You might find this item on Unraid 6.12-rc4 to be of interest in understanding about Unraid storage management.
April 28, 20233 yr Author It's definitely what I was searching for. I hope that version will be released soon. Thanks so much for your help!
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