CACHE DRIVE UNRAID SETUP WINDOWS

i am trying unraid seems to be good and uses parity drive. its not like you can have warning realyl other then the smart. as i watched that on linus tech tips 3 Raid 5 on there one system. How long do SSDs last for i always worried i have good stuff on there and one day is like on off switch works today gone tommorow and no chance in hell to retrieve.thats why i always wonder why do they use ssds in raid if it bricks good then its all screwed.

CACHE DRIVE UNRAID SETUP WINDOWS

Especially if basic web browsing cache is all you need.ДЄh ok ya i dont need anything fancy im just a home user few people of my family on the internet sharing 5mbps connection not that fast.ДЄs i read you want a squid proxy for when downloading windows updates when 1 computer does it saves on the squid and then my other computer will just get it from there not bother getting from the internet. If you have a lot of ram lying around and you can put at least 8GB in your pfsense box then set aside 4GB for caching instead, that will be the absolute fastest. But the newer the SSD the better.Д®DIT3 (lol): Another option is to use RAM for caching, Squid supports setting aside a chunk of RAM for caching and that is the BEST option for light web caching (it just won't persist through a reboot). You don't need much space, a Samsung 860 EVO is only $76 USD on amazon for 250GB which is WAY overkill for you. Even the smallest SSD is totaly worth it. Perhaps throughput won't matter as much for your use case but LATENCY will, and hard drives are THE WORST for that. I'm caching a 1Gbs fiber wan line on a Samsung 960 evo NVMe SSD (which does 2.5GBs write/3.2GBs read) that is then fed to a 10Gbps X520 adapter to an enterprise switch etc etc.Д®DIT: What are the specs for your pfsense box? I can make a recommendation if you'd like.Д®DIT2: The speed of your internet doesnt matter as much, that's because once you have cached the data, the speed is entirely up to your network for whatever data is already cached. A sata ahci ssd will hit 400-500MBs, and an NVMe drive will do even better. The second is throughput, the PEAK data flow for most mechanical hard drives is about 100MBps which will BARELY saturate a 1Gbps network. This is an eternity when it comes to web browsing.

You really don't want to use a physical hard drive for 2 main reasons, the first is LATENCY, hard drives are slow as f*** and have to spin up to seek the location of the cached data. If you are a 50+ user network then consider getting the Intel Optane 900p, it offers significantly better endurance. You can absolutely use an SSD, and yes it does have a 'shorter' life span, but if you're using a newer SSD (like the Samsung 850/950 etc) then it shouldn't be an issue for the non-enterprise users.

Cache drive unraid setup