Ynitxap Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 Hi community, I am very excited about my 1st Unraid server build. I have a motherboard with 3 NVME slots and 2 Samsung 990 Pro 1TB NVMEs. I also have 2 old 2TB SATA HDDs. How should I best set up my arrays so I can expand storage later. I will retire my Synology NAS and after formating the drives I will add two 10TB HDDs to Unraid later. So for now it is 2 NVME + 2 SATA. At the moment this is more for testing purposes and I am mainly wondering about how to utilize the 2 NVME drives so I don't have to start over when adding more storage. Thank you for your input Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 Simplest start which will still make sense as you explore and expand. 1 HDD as parity. other HDD as array Disk 1. nvme drives as 2xbtrfs raid1 cache pool Later you can upsize parity, which will let you use larger HDDs in the array. 1 Quote Link to comment
Ynitxap Posted February 7 Author Share Posted February 7 Thanks a lot, @trurl. Does it matter which M2 slot I use? Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted February 8 Share Posted February 8 You can use them all, but the one closest to the CPU uses the dedicated CPU lanes, so it should be the first one used. 1 Quote Link to comment
Ynitxap Posted February 8 Author Share Posted February 8 48 minutes ago, JorgeB said: You can use them all, but the one closest to the CPU uses the dedicated CPU lanes, so it should be the first one used. Thank you very much! Quote Link to comment
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