February 24, 201610 yr New to Unraid and NAS. I am starting my build and wanting to get my drive sizes correct. Plan is to have about 10 TB of data storage, Plex Plugin, and maybe Sickbeard or other PVR. Data drives are all 2 TB, Parity drive 4 TB. I have a 500 GB SSD available, is this a good cache drive choice?
February 25, 201610 yr New to Unraid and NAS. I am starting my build and wanting to get my drive sizes correct. Plan is to have about 10 TB of data storage, Plex Plugin, and maybe Sickbeard or other PVR. Data drives are all 2 TB, Parity drive 4 TB. I have a 500 GB SSD available, is this a good cache drive choice? Welcome! So 5x2TB=10TB (data), 1x4TB (parity) & 500 GB SSD Cache? Looks good to me, though the extra 2TB on your parity drive is wasted space until you add a larger data drive. If you happen to already have the 4TB lying around it'll work fine, but if you're buying it new I'd get the same size as your largest data drive. How many drive slots do you have? If you were to expand, would you be able to add an another data disk or would you be swapping a 2TB for a larger one? re: SSD Cache vs spinner... definitely go SSD if you're going to be running VM/Docker/Plugins.
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