December 11, 200916 yr Regarding the cache drive I was thinking if I really need one as I have a Qnap 509 Pro spinning all the time and being able to saturate a GigE with about 90MB/s, it could be used to transfer media files (to protected storage) and then, nightly, a process kicked in by cron may start moving/rsync those files to the unRAID server. What do you think? Is there anything I should take care of?
December 11, 200916 yr Regarding the cache drive I was thinking if I really need one as I have a Qnap 509 Pro spinning all the time and being able to saturate a GigE with about 90MB/s, it could be used to transfer media files (to protected drives) and then, nightly, a process kicked in by cron may start moving those files to the unRAID server. What do you think? Is there anything I should take care of? If I'm not mistaken you could probably do one or the other or both... A)You can have the "spare" drive as a cache drive B)You can not set it as a cache drive on the devices page on the main web gui. This would leave the drive unassigned on the array and available for any use you see fit. C)Format it with reiserfs on the first physical partition of the drisk and format the rest in the same/different filesystem. Use the first partition as a cache drive and use the second partition as a drive for Qnap 509 Pro Cheers, Matt
December 11, 200916 yr Author No, the other way round. Copy files from workstations to the Qnap first, then from there, nightly move them to unRAID server. At least with my setup this will have the following benefit: - the actual "cache drive" (the Qnap) is RAID5 protected - copies are fast - no additional drive needed as cache in the unRAID server
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