jhmariscal Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 Coming from a failed QNAP and liked what I saw with UNRAID. I get that UR is NOT RAID. That's fine and all. Still, trying to figure out how I would recreate my prior 6 bay situation. Prior I had 4x 4tb Red NAS drives acting as my main utilized system. This was in a RAID 6, so I had roughly 8TB usable. The I had 2x 8TB Archive drives set in RAID 1 and placed a lot of storage data that was not often touched. Because of the way ARCHIVE drives are shingled (as I understand it), they should not be used for multiple concurrent read/ writes. Now, I have the 4x 4TB drives set Parity Parity 2 Disk 1 Disk 2 (and then added a 1TB Evo 870) for Cache. Does this look right for the array to 'mimic' the Raid 6 setup I had prior? Thanks. The next question would be on how to incorporate the 2x8TB ARCHIVE drives to use in a similar fashion as prior without messing with read/ write ability of above? I would effectively want them to act as a mirrored array for long term storage data. Advice? Better usage? Quote Link to comment
JonathanM Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 If you are using the 6.9 beta series, you could set up your 2 archive drives in a second cache pool using BTRFS RAID1. Quote Link to comment
jhmariscal Posted November 23, 2020 Author Share Posted November 23, 2020 (edited) Thanks jonthanm - Not using 6.9 beta series. Since I am new, concerned about stability. Should I be? Edited November 23, 2020 by jhmariscal spelling Quote Link to comment
JonathanM Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 9 minutes ago, jhmariscal said: Thanks jonthanm - Not using 6.9 beta series. Since I am new, concerned about stability. Should I be? The core is stable, there are some display details and minor things being worked on. I'm running beta on 3 out of 4 of my machines. Quote Link to comment
jhmariscal Posted November 23, 2020 Author Share Posted November 23, 2020 Thanks @jonathanm. Can you tell me if the below looks right a basic setup (again, trying to get close to 'mimicking' RAID 6? Now, I have the 4x 4TB drives set Parity Parity 2 Disk 1 Disk 2 (and then added a 1TB Evo 870) for Cache. Does this look right for the array to 'mimic' the Raid 6 setup I had prior? Thanks. Quote Link to comment
jhmariscal Posted November 23, 2020 Author Share Posted November 23, 2020 Sorry- Also, once I have the drives in, how would I set up the second cache pool using BTRFS RAID1? Quote Link to comment
jhmariscal Posted November 24, 2020 Author Share Posted November 24, 2020 Hello- Can anyone assist with my question? Quote Link to comment
JonathanM Posted November 24, 2020 Share Posted November 24, 2020 Can you post a screenshot of the MAIN GUI with what you have done so far? Quote Link to comment
JonathanM Posted November 24, 2020 Share Posted November 24, 2020 I don't see the 2ea 8TB drives in the Unassigned section. Are they connected? Quote Link to comment
jhmariscal Posted November 24, 2020 Author Share Posted November 24, 2020 Sorry, I dont have the 2x8TB drives in yet. I was only asking on how so I could prep. Do the main drive setup look correct to you? Quote Link to comment
JonathanM Posted November 24, 2020 Share Posted November 24, 2020 Looks good so far. With the 2 8TB drives connected and the array stopped, just click Add Pool and go from there. Quote Link to comment
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