Im planing on setup up a NAS with unraid and I want to work directly on some files inside a NAS, not sure if this is a good use case for this.

 

So for example when editing a word file (just a software most ppl knows), a temp file is created, if the file is being edited is inside the NAS, where will this file be saved at? and what would be the case if using a cache drive? what would happend to the file after it has been save definitely, will it go through the cache again and replace the old file or will it be edited straight away? and if that’s the case, how does the parity check works here

 

Is this a bad idea? to work directly on files inside a NAS? should I consider another option? 

General rules assuming a share set to use Cache: YES

1. New files get written to the cache drive
2. Existing files which are modified are written to where ever they already exist (cache / array)

Parity is always updated in real-time with unRaid for any files written on the array.