Hi I'm looking for a bit of advice. I've just pulled a 120Gb SSD out of a PC and I want to put it in my Unraid server as a dedicated VM drive. What's the best way of doing this while not adding it to the array or using it as a cache drive?

 

Thanks

I like the idea of seperate cache and app (VM) drives. I guess for a seperate app drive you need to mount another drive outside of the array.

 

In v5 the method I have used to mount a drive outside the array is SNAP. This post here details how to do this with the plugin:

 

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=29519.0

 

I haven't installed v6x (in anger) yet but found this post you might want to read:

 

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=31594.0

I've got SNAP installed but what file format do you recommend I use on the drive XFS, NTFS?

I've got SNAP installed but what file format do you recommend I use on the drive XFS, NTFS?

 

I use XFS for the SSD that houses my VM's.