April 11, 201610 yr Just built a new system for file storage and decided to give unraid a shot. My hardware consists of a Asrock MicroATX H97M PRO4 board with 8gb ram, can add more later, Pentium G3260, Crucial M4 256gb SSD, HGST 3tb NAS drive, 2xHitachi 2tb drives, and 2xWD 1tb green drives. Wondering what the best way to set this up, the SSD as a cache drive with the 3tb as the parity drive and others as storage?
April 12, 201610 yr Yes, that's the approach you want to take. Parity must as large as or larger than your biggest data disk. SSDs are not appropriate for data or parity, but make great cache drives.
April 12, 201610 yr Author Awesome, thanks. So If I buy the Basic of V6 it only allows for 6 data drives, would that include the cache drive or is the cache drive separate?
April 12, 201610 yr Community Expert Awesome, thanks. So If I buy the Basic of V6 it only allows for 6 data drives, would that include the cache drive or is the cache drive separate? the license limits apply to all storage devices in your system (except for the unRAID boot USB drive) regardless of whether they are being used in unRAID or not. As such cache and parity drives count against the limit and thus reduce the number of data drives you can use.
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