Hello,
I`m new in this forum, as well as unRaid is pretty new for me. At the moment I`m running a HP N40L microserver with OPenmediavault, but without any Raid functionallity for video, mp3 storage, but also as a backup media for 3 other Windows7 computers. I have 8 hard disks (5 internal) and 4 external connnected via eSata (using portmuliplier). At the moment I`m interessted using unRaid, due to the fact it`s similar to an Raid 5 system, but without the disadvantage of loosing all data, if more than 2 hard disks crashes at the same time. Now I come to my questions: Which is the write speed I can expect with a cache hard disk, without I tested it already, its appr. 25M? Is it worth to install a SSD instead a fast 7.200 hard disk? And the last question is: is it possible to configure the cache hard disk, to write to the other hard disk and in parallel to the parity disk, when I download large files from my external computer to the unRaid system. What is the expected speed, due to I can`t test it at the moment with the free version of unRaid and I would like to have an impression befor buying the software.
Many thanks in advance
Dieter