solomonshv Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 hello, i'm trying to build a NAS with 2 arrays, one with nvme drives and another with spinning rust. i have one array working but can't see a way to create a second. i saw some posts regarding this from 2+ years ago saying you can't do it. is this still the case? Quote Link to comment
Squid Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 Multiple arrays, no. Multiple cache pools are however coming with the next rev of unRaid. Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 Do you have a cache pool? If not then put the SSDs there and you're done. Quote Link to comment
solomonshv Posted April 15, 2020 Author Share Posted April 15, 2020 38 minutes ago, trurl said: Do you have a cache pool? If not then put the SSDs there and you're done. i don't get it. how does that help me? is there a way to tell it to keep certain folders on the fast storage at all times? Quote Link to comment
itimpi Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 39 minutes ago, solomonshv said: i don't get it. how does that help me? is there a way to tell it to keep certain folders on the fast storage at all times? Any share that has a Use-Cache setting = Only will only exist on the cache drive. If Use Cache=Prefer then it will normally be on the cache drive but is allowed to overflow to the array if the cache drive runs out of space. 1 Quote Link to comment
solomonshv Posted April 16, 2020 Author Share Posted April 16, 2020 thank you for taking the time to answer my Qs, but this seems like a work around rather than a solution. i would have never imagined such a limitation. i've been spoiled by synology and QNAP, but i don't want to pay for their hardware anymore. looks like i'm better off getting a HighPoint SSD7120 controller and let it run my nvme drives in RAID6. thanks again. Quote Link to comment
Markess Posted April 25, 2020 Share Posted April 25, 2020 (edited) On 4/15/2020 at 10:00 AM, Squid said: Multiple arrays, no. Multiple cache pools are however coming with the next rev of unRaid. That is wonderful! I was just thinking I wanted this, and here you post about it. By next Rev though, are you talking 6.8.4, or 6.9 or 7.0? I'm still a newb here and don't know the versioning structure. Thank you Edited April 25, 2020 by Markess Quote Link to comment
meep Posted April 25, 2020 Share Posted April 25, 2020 6 minutes ago, Markess said: That is wonderful! I was just thinking I wanted this, and here you post about it. By next Rev though, are you talking 6.8.4, or 6.9 or 7.0? I'm still a newb here and don't know the versioning structure. Thank you 6.9, apparently. 1 Quote Link to comment
TheShadowDuke Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 Would be pretty cool to be able to buy access to another array. I have a netapp diskshelf just collecting dust. Quote Link to comment
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