unraid stripe data across all drives

[Hellomynameisleo]

Is it possible for unraid to have something like an option for striping data across all drives for more performance similar to what zfs/raid does, then having the parity drives as usual?

 

I believe something like this should be possible as it doesn't seem to change how unraid calculates its parity or the way it works.

With the performance being bound to the parity drive in this case you can assign a hard drive as something like a performance drive paired to the parity drive to take half of the calculation of the parity drive so it is twice or three overall faster if assigning multiple performance drives.

the benefits will be you can have mixed drives sizes, an array that you can expand without hassle like usual unraid, with added performance beneifts while also having the protection redundancy all the same time.

Edited July 19, 2023 by Hellomynameisleo

[itimpi]

2 hours ago, Hellomynameisleo said:

Is it possible for unraid to have something like an option for striping data across all drives for more performance similar to what zfs/raid does, then having the parity drives as usual?

 

I believe something like this should be possible as it doesn't seem to change how unraid calculates its parity or the way it works.

With the performance being bound to the parity drive in this case you can assign a hard drive as something like a performance drive paired to the parity drive to take half of the calculation of the parity drive so it is twice or three overall faster if assigning multiple performance drives.

the benefits will be you can have mixed drives sizes, an array that you can expand without hassle like usual unraid, with added performance beneifts while also having the protection redundancy all the same time.

This is incompatible with the basic Unraid assumption that in the main array each drive is a self-contained file system that can be read by itself outside Unraid.

 

If you want striping then you should probably be using ZFS pool for this purpose.