SSD Question

[Roscoe62]

Hi,

 

I'm wanting to add a small SSD to my Unraid array. I'm using a media repository system for a Duneplayer called Zappiti and it's my plan to use the SSD specifically for storing the zappiti index - and the reason for using the SSD is that it's always available (i.e. no spin-up required). Using an SSD in this fashion on Unraid, are there any "gotchas" I need to be aware of? For example, if I issue a command to spin the drives down, am I right in assuming this will not affect the SSD at all?

 

For what it's worth, I'm really only looking at an SSD of around 32-40Gb in size. That's really all I need for this function.

[WeeboTech]

Are you going to use it in the protected array or mount it via some script onto /mnt and update the smb.conf file to allow access to it?

 

if it's part of the parity protected array, then anytime you write to the ssd, the parity drive will spin up.

[Roscoe62]

It'll be part of the protected array. When writing to it I don't have an issue with the parity drive spin-up time - it's only the READ spin-up time I'm trying to eliminate.

[lionelhutz]

Personally, I'd add it outside of the protected array.

 

Peter

[Roscoe62]

Personally, I'd add it outside of the protected array.

 

Peter

 

It would be helpful if you'd be willing to share you reasoning why...

[lionelhutz]

You don't need to protect it and it won't spin up the parity drive and slow down on writes. I suspect you might get faster speeds outside the array too.

 

Peter

 

[jjw3579]

You could do a compromise of those two ideas... Mount it outside the protected array and rsync it to a drive in the array with a cron job at some off-hour time.