Hi,

Looking for some advice as I'm new to this:

 

So setting up from scratch

I've got 4 x 8TB and 1 x 6TB drive for my main storage and parity lined up.

I've also got access to 4 x 1TB SSD's (although Ideally I'd only use 2 of them as I'd like to keep the option to use these drives elsewhere) 

 

Is there any benefit (beyond space) of having 2 SSD's in the cache pool ? (Or would 3+ add some benefits ?)

 

Thanks

 

 

Just now, Shnee said:

Is there any benefit (beyond space) of having 2 SSD's in the cache pool ?

 

By default you get redundancy, not extra space, with 2 cache devices, though it can be changed:

 

 

Ah ok so can I check is there a way to set them up to have one of ? 

 

1 - Larger cache (can't really see why I'll need this)

2 - Greater Speed.

3 - Redundancy 

 

Thanks

 

RAID10, but you'll need at least 4 devices.

Great thanks I'll keep the drives as media shuttle drives then for now.