Is it possible to use one of my ssd's instead of a flash drive? I don't really have flash drives but many ssd's also I know what speed they are instead of having to buy a "really expensive" flash drive just for unraid, since I have the ssd's just lying around.

 

Edit: I want to add that I did search on "ssd" before posting this, and it netted zero results.

Edited May 9, 20197 yr by HAJFAJV

No. Unraid loads the files from the flash, but executes completely from RAM. Even if you could load the OS from a ssd there is zero performance benefit from doing so

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Just to add to Squid's response here. unRAID uses the USB flash drive in its licensing scheme, that is why it must be a USB flash drive. It doesnt need to be an expensive, fast or even a very large USB flash drive. Mine is a 16G USB2 Monster Digital one, cost like $5. 

On 5/9/2019 at 5:53 PM, Squid said:

No. Unraid loads the files from the flash, but executes completely from RAM. Even if you could load the OS from a ssd there is zero performance benefit from doing so

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Oh thanks then it actually makes no sense why anyone would want a "fast" flash drive. Maybe I'm confusing Unraid with Freenas or something.

On 5/9/2019 at 6:52 PM, primeval_god said:

Just to add to Squid's response here. unRAID uses the USB flash drive in its licensing scheme, that is why it must be a USB flash drive. It doesnt need to be an expensive, fast or even a very large USB flash drive. Mine is a 16G USB2 Monster Digital one, cost like $5. 

Thanks for helping clearing this up for me.