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2022-09-05
2022-09-06
  • Lars-Göran Lindström

    Hi

    I just want to verify that it is okay to use SSD's with SR (sata, m.2).

    Reason I am asking is that I learned that using SSD with Unraid is not to recommend. The reason is that the internal controller in a SSD moves stuff around and Unraid accesses the disk in a physical manner, not files. The way to calculate the parity will then crash. (i.e give wrong result).

    Because SR and Unraid seems to work on the same principle I have some concerns about this.

    Can anyone elaborate on this? Because I have seen posts, claiming that SR works with SSD's

     
  • Bill McClain

    Bill McClain - 2022-09-05

    Snapraid is entirely file based, if that solves the concern.

    Your data files are left as they are, and parity and content are ordinary files and accessed as such.

     
  • Lars-Göran Lindström

    Okay.
    As I understand are Unraid accessing data by using track and sector which not will work using SSD's.

    Relived to hear that this is not the case with SnapRaid.

    Is there a description about how SnapRaid calculates the parity?

     

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