llysowain Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 Hello, I am re-doing my unRAID system and need some advice about storage. I have an HP ProLiant MicroServer Gen8 Entry Intel G1610T at the moment with 16GB RAM a Xeon CPU and a fair amount of storage. I shall dissasembble this and move some of the gear to a larger Phantek Case with a NVIDIA GTX 1060, 32GB RAM, an Asrock SSI-EEB Dual Socket Motherboard with twin Xeon CPUs (Xeon E5-2670). I have 2 questions: A: Do I need 2 Parity disks ? B: I have 2 Samsung 850 EVO SSDs, should I use these for cache disks or would it be bettter/safer with 2 X 1TB spinning HDDs ? Any suggestions would be appreciated, thank you. Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 SSDs for cache assuming they have the capacity for your usage. 2nd parity becomes more important the more array drives you have. Quote Link to comment
llysowain Posted November 30, 2016 Author Share Posted November 30, 2016 I'll start with one parity HDD. The SSds are 500GB each. Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 500 GB SSD should be plenty for any conceivable usage. Quote Link to comment
llysowain Posted November 30, 2016 Author Share Posted November 30, 2016 That's what I thought, thank you. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment
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