[Guide] NAS Killer 6.0 - DDR4 is finally cheap

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Correct, each type of drive consumes different amounts of power at idle and while busy.

You can spin the drives down while not in use, but if you do - I would highly recommend you read my primer on HDD caches in Unraid.

[Guide] HDDs + multiple cache pools in Unraid

[image] Image credit: ServeTheHome Overview Hey everyone, this will be a quick overview of how I use HDDs with multiple cache pools. A few notes before we begin: I’m not suggesting ditch your SSD cache entirely, I haven’t done that on any of my servers. I use both HDD and SSD in cache pools. SSD endurance is something that should be on everyone’s radar. If you can limit writing to your SSD, it will last longer. Sure, there are high endurance SSDs (and I always recommend them), but they ar…