November 21, 2025Nov 21 I started using Unraid because my old "server" ran Windows Home Server and didn't meet my needs. I had Unraid up and running until I broke my main storage pool. I am attempting to rebuild. I store family photos and videos using Immich. I also use Unraid to store other family data. Last, I was running a very simple self hosted web page (just a hobby, nothing important). In other words, I'm using my Unraid server mostly as a NAS.I am going to try to configure my storage and system correctly this time. I have:An old ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. M5A97 LE R2.0 motherboardAMD FX™-8300 Eight-Core @ 3300 MHzMemory 32 GiB DDR32 SATA SSD 256GB6 various HDDI searched and found I should configure the cache drive file system to BTRFS (I have 2 SSD for this). I liked using ZFS for my main data storage pool (1 pool, 6 hdd using RAIDZ2).Could someone please advise me if this setup sounds okay or not. Plus any advice on how to setup the file system to take advantage of this meager system.Thank you! Edited November 21, 2025Nov 21 by GRBHV5
November 21, 2025Nov 21 Author I wonder if I need a cache drive. I generally only transfer photos and videos onto the array, Immich transfers them once the photo is taken. For larger videos, Immich will only transfer them when I am on my home network.We used to watch a few movies through Jellyfin, but haven't been using it much these days.Since I am rebuilding my storage pool with all our photos and videos, I'll be transferring in about 4tb of data in one big move.
November 21, 2025Nov 21 1 hour ago, GRBHV5 said:I wonder if I need a cache drive. I generally only transfer photos and videos onto the array, Immich transfers them once the photo is taken. For larger videos, Immich will only transfer them when I am on my home network.We used to watch a few movies through Jellyfin, but haven't been using it much these days.Since I am rebuilding my storage pool with all our photos and videos, I'll be transferring in about 4tb of data in one big move.Are these SSD NVMe or SATA? I'll set NVMe devices as Special Mirror vdev to speed up Raidz2 index.
November 21, 2025Nov 21 Just now, GRBHV5 said:Oops, SATA. I edited the post aboveWell, SATA isn't bad, but you still can get a mirror NVMe for nearly 50€ if your motherboard can handle it.Just check your SATA SSD wear state before. Edited November 21, 2025Nov 21 by gyto6
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