Fizz Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 Hello, I'm planning to build a new nas and was wondering if Unraid made sense for my scenario. I've been reading a lot about Unraid and have been using the trial for a few days. I'm planning to get 2x14 TB disks for the array and an SSD for the cache. Is Unraid a good choice for this setup? Would I be better off with mirroring (which it seems Unraid is not built for) compared to the parity functionality in Unraid? I don't expect to need more storage for at least a few years. I realize I could benefit from parity by using a 8TB parity disk and 2x8TB data disks to give me more usable space (and at a lower cost). However, I prefer two disks as I can reuse a small case I already have. I'd need a new case to fit 3 HDs plus a SSD. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 25 minutes ago, Fizz said: Would I be better off with mirroring If you use a single data device + plus parity Unraid will basically work as a RAID1 (mirroring) setup. 1 Quote Link to comment
Fizz Posted July 13, 2020 Author Share Posted July 13, 2020 Is performance with RAID1 the same (or close) compared to Unraid with this setup? I thought maybe RAID1 would write faster and use less CPU. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 It's faster than normal Unraid parity write speed, i.e., if you use 2 or more data drives, though you can get close to that with turbo write. 1 Quote Link to comment
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