Hi!
I've registered onto your forum especially to ask you this one question : I know from older videos that Linus is a fan of UnRaid, and so am I. About the only "downside" UnRaid has (because of the way it works) is that its throughput speeds are not mindblowing, not compared to a regular Raid array anyway. But IMO about everything else is better, especially for home users and maybe even small businesses.
But then I started to wonder : now that SSD prices have dropped a lot in the last couple of years, it's slowly becoming interesting to consider using SSD's for use in the disk array (not only as the cache drive!).
So I would love to see Linus make a network speed comparison between :
1. A classic Unraid system with all winchester drives.
2. A classic Unraid system with winchester drives for its array and SSD's for cache
3. An Unraid system with only SATA600 2.5" SSD's
4. An UnRaid system with only NVMe SSD's.
Of course all tested with 10 Gbe cards... as far as I can see, nobody has ever done this before.
I'm curious to see if this would work, and how much difference it would make. Sure, this would make the server about 5 to 6 times as expensive, but as a home user I'm not looking for hundreds of Terabytes of storage anyway, so this just might be worth it...
Cheers!
