August 23, 2025Aug 23 Hello fellow Unraiders. Im still a n00b with all things unraid but I am getting there slowly. So at the moment Im running my server with a 8TB parity drive with further 6 drives of 1 x 4TB then 5 x 2TB. I have just ordered 2 x 16TB drives as I want to upgrade before I get desperate for room. I also have a 512gb NVME that I use for downloading. I found that I had alot of I/O issues when downloading from usenet directly to the mechanical HDD as I am lucky enough to have a 1 gig download connection. I run all my arrs from usenet and very happy with the way it runs, However I also have a few private torrent sites where i like to help out seeding linux isos. With the seeding requirements I dont have a lot of wiggleroom to keep the isos on my NVME. Downloading from torrents behind a VPN going via GlutenVPN I am getting about 50MB/s downloads, because I'm relying on torrents as my main goto for getting data im not as bothered about speed. Soooo sorry about the drivvel........1) What/ How is the best way for me to swap the 8TB parity for one of the 16TB when I get it....... plus would you add any of the other smaller drives to parity also?2) For downloads can I just take the bottom 2TB Samsung out of my array and would it be ok for a torrent download seeder drive..... it is only a 5400rpm drive with SATA 2.6, 3.0 Gb/s. further question to that, is If i was to buy a cheap second hand 1-2TB SSD would i get the I/O wait issues using a bigger SSD instead of the smaller NVME.thanks.
August 24, 2025Aug 24 16 hours ago, Houghton19 said:1) What/ How is the best way for me to swap the 8TB parity for one of the 16TB when I get it....... plus would you add any of the other smaller drives to parity also?Just relace old parity withe new one and resync.16 hours ago, Houghton19 said:2) For downloads can I just take the bottom 2TB Samsung out of my array and would it be ok for aIn my experience you need an SSD, disks are just too slow for that, but you try, it may be enough for you.
August 24, 2025Aug 24 A standard SSD should be fine, the issue with disks for that use is the iops, so typically they will slow down the download speed.
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