July 13, 20205 yr 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.
July 13, 20205 yr Community Expert 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.
July 13, 20205 yr Author 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.
July 13, 20205 yr Community Expert 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.
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