April 7, 20242 yr Hi Community! I noticed in order for me to update my display name in future I have to at least have made 1 content post, so here it is. I'm new to the Unraid world, very happy with the software and potential flexibility that I've gone ahead and ordered 2x 18TB EXO HDDs to replace my existing very old 4TB HDD and a 1TB Crucial P3 Plus to replace my aging and faulting WD Green 120GB SSD (being used as cache). Currently my set up is just a basic i3-7100 build with 8GB RAM, used to run as a Windows 10 HTPC with Plex. The 4TB drive is running as-is with no parity at the moment on XFS and the cache SSD is BTRFS. The new 18TB HDDs will run 1x Array and 1x Parity on XFS, and I'll add more in the future as needed. Crucial P3 Plus will be BTRFS, same as current WD Green SSD. If you're reading this post and have any tips / tricks you feel are worth mentioning, feel free to drop your thoughts / suggestions here, I've done a lot of digging to answer my own questions but who knows what little nuggets of wisdom you may all have for both me and others who stumble across this post. One thing I can think of is perhaps any advice around ideal time to add a secondary parity drive to combat higher likeyhood of losing more than 1 array drive in a short period of time. A balance between adding more storage / drives and adding more fault tolerance. Planning to buy a Silverstone Server/NAS case and set things up for better future expansion, just waiting for Intel's 15th Generation CPU lineup to launch before I do my new build. Thanks for your time!
April 7, 20242 yr Welcome! Second parity is usually recommended when you have a a significant number of array disks, I would say 10 or more, still, it's always a cheap way to have better redundancy for smaller arrays, but never a substitute for backups.
April 7, 20242 yr Author 28 minutes ago, JorgeB said: Welcome! Second parity is usually recommended when you have a a significant number of array disks, I would say 10 or more, still, it's always a cheap way to have better redundancy for smaller arrays, but never a substitute for backups. Thanks Jorge!
April 16, 20242 yr Author 45 minutes ago, Ainsley_Ha said: Hello and welcome! Hello and thank you. ☺️
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