August 15, 201411 yr love the unraid software and have been using it for a little over a year; my question is around speeding up the extraction of rar/zips; my unraid box is fairly simple but i think it has enough performance (if it matters, AMD Phenom II X4 945, 8gb ram, 750gb cache drive, 3tb parity drive and 5x2tb / 2x3tb for storage) as for extracting i use sabnzbd running on a mac mini (windows/bootcamp not osx) and have always had it save to \\tower\blackhole\new after the download finishes it will extract to \\tower\blackhole\complete the problem that i have with this is i can download faster than the files can extract (dl is ~7mbps) so i thought i would save the files locally c:\new and after the dl finishes it will extract to \\tower\blackhole\complete however i am still having the slow speed. my only other thought would be to extract directly to the cache drive but i am wondering if this will cause issues with the accessibility of the files or would it even give me any write performance increase? if mover would still function correctly then i would certainly give it a try but if write speeds will be the same i guess there is no point changing it... anyone have any other thoughts?
August 16, 201411 yr Writing to cache would be faster than writing to parity protected array, but another thing that might help is writing to a different drive than you are reading/extracting it from.
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