January 17Jan 17 I recently setup a new box and have 3x 4TB drives and 3x 12TB drives, 2x SSD for cache and 1 NVME drive which I'm planning on using for docker and VM's.My main use case will be media and family photos.I'm looking for advice for the setup.aka:1x M2 - Docker and VM2x SSD - Cache3x 4TB RaidZ1?3x 12TB RaidZ1?is there any advantage to using all HDD's in an array instead?Thanks :-)
January 17Jan 17 Community Expert Well the array lets you expand disk by disk. The only limiting factor is the size of the parity disk needing to be at least as large as the largest disk you use in the array. In your case it would be a 12TB HDD. (Parity is optional)Furthermore data is not striped meaning each disk is an independent filesystem. A failed disk does not wipe out the entire array unlike a zpool which would be entirely lost if more than a single disk fails in a raidz1 configuration.https://docs.unraid.net/unraid-os/getting-started/set-up-unraid/configure-your-array/https://docs.unraid.net/unraid-os/advanced-configurations/optimize-storage/zfs-storage/Ultimately there is no wrong answer, setup your disks however you please.
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