unRAID Server release 4.5-beta8 available
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This release includes bug fixes and a driver change that should result in significantly faster write performance to the array. In addition there are some key configurable settings that can affect memory usage, write performance, and parity-sync performance. But since it's 2:30AM I will wait until tomorrow to describe how to do that
One thing that delayed this release was that for the longest time, I was making driver changes which sho
None of these tunables have anything to do with the Cache Drive; they are 'tweaks' for the low-level unraid array driver only.
First, you can create a file in the 'config' directory of the Flash called 'extra.cfg'. This file is read when the array is Started and may be used to define the values (or override default values) of these tunables. Here are the current defaults:
md_num_stripes=1280
md_write_limit=768
md_sync_window=288
md_num_stripes defines the maximum number of a