November 17, 20178 yr I currently have an old WD Green 2TB drive as my cache drive in my largest server, its getting on for four years old and I am thinking about replacing it. What do you all think of the Firecuda drives? These are Seagate hybrid drives that combine standard HDD technology with SSD technology and produces a drive that falls in between an SSD and regular hard drive for performance. This is for a rack mount server so a regular SSD is not really an option without some work which I'd rather not do. Any issues using this drive as a cache drive in unRAID?
November 17, 20178 yr Do you access the same relatively small (I.E. not large video media files) on a regular basis (I.E. multiple times a day). If so then the SSD portion may help you. Otherwise I would suggest you spend more and just get an SSD of sufficient size or use a standard spinner and save money. Those hybrid drives work better on an OS drive where the parts of the OS that get accessed the most get the boost from the small SSD cache installed on the drive. Or on a gaming rig where portions of the game that get accessed the most get loaded in the SSD cache. Based on the specs at Seagate that SSD cache is only 8GB so would only help with smaller files like I thought. https://www.seagate.com/www-content/product-content/firecuda-family/firecuda/files/firecuda-ds-1903-1-1606us.pdf Edited November 17, 20178 yr by BobPhoenix
November 18, 20178 yr Author The problem is SSD prices are still pretty high here in Canada for anything above 500GB, so I guess I'll just stick with a spinner for now, thanks.
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