March 16, 20251 yr Hello everyone! Hope you're all doing well. I'm setting up my Unraid system after the Disk Read Scan finishes, and I would love to get some advice for configuration. Here’s what I have and thinking to use: 4×16TB HDDs (Planning to use 1 for parity) 512GB NVMe SSD (Considering it for cache) Extra drives that can be used if it gets reccomended: 2TB & 1TB HDDs (Old but lightly used, general-purpose) 256GB & 128GB SATA SSDs (Brand new, won in a giveaway) What should be the ideal setup, configuration, for this system? I'm thinking to buy Unleashed License. Currently, I have 6 Sata Ports and 2 NVME Connection points on my MB. Case has 3x 3.5 3x 5.25 and 3x 2.5 slots so i don't think capacity of case would be a problem. Thanks in advance!
March 16, 20251 yr 6 minutes ago, Sitaxh said: 2TB & 1TB HDDs (Old but lightly used, general-purpose) Not significant capacity in relation to your other disks, and old as you mentioned. I always say each additional disk is an additional point of failure.
March 16, 20251 yr I might use the "old" drives for "download" tasks. When I say, "download tasks" I mean temporary storage that might work hard, but not really matter too much because it's just a download drive. Read in to that what you will. MrGrey.
March 16, 20251 yr 3 hours ago, MrGrey said: I might use the "old" drives for "download" tasks. When I say, "download tasks" I mean temporary storage that might work hard, but not really matter too much because it's just a download drive. You could put them in a pool instead of in the parity array, they won't involve parity when writing, so will be faster. Also, you need to be able to trust any disks in the parity array since all are needed to rebuild a drive.
March 16, 20251 yr For the SSDs, I have a pool for cache and another "fast" pool for the "default" shares (appdata, domains, system) used by Dockers/VMs and anything else where I want faster access, or to not spinup array disks. If you want redundancy for any pool (mirror, for example) it would need more than one drive. I just do a simple mirror for mine so the drives must be the same size.
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