Hello 

Im new to Unraid. Ive never done an Unraid server but always wanted to try. I mostly do Proxmox/TrueNAS, but want to try something new. I am building a new system. Ive landed on a Lenovo P510. My question is about my HDD and m.2 setup. Ive been reading that you dont want them mixed. I have 4x 10tb HDD and 4x 4tb m.2 drives and 1tb m.2.

 

My understanding is that you would set it up as say 1x 10tb as parity and 3x 10tb as the array with the 1x 1tb as cache. Then I would setup the 4x M.2 as a pool. Am I understanding that right? What are the benefits of a pool vs Array on unraid?

 

What is the layout.

I plan to add a 12gb vram Nvidia card into the 16x PCIe for some AI work and game streaming.

I will use a 16x PCIe m.2 adapter for the 4x 4tb m.2 so I can have fast storage.

The 30tb is just slow storage, dump that will be written to once and just store the files.

8x PCIe for a dual 10g intel nic. Network backbone is 10g and 2.5g.

 

Thaks for any help

  

42 minutes ago, David61 said:

Ive been reading that you dont want them mixed.

You can mixed them, but for better performance I would recommend creating a raidz pool with the SSDs.