Unraid: Unleash Your Hardware

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The original was posted on /r/unraid by /u/rbOthree on 2023-09-16 20:29:56.

Hi all,

Completely newbie to unraid, so apologies if this is obvious. I am repurposing an old pc with a rather large, old drive in it. My plan was to add a bunch of new drives to it to use as a storage server.

However, one way I thought I could save money is maybe reusing the old slow drive as the parity drive since it's much bigger than any drives I would buy.

I would imagine in a typical raid setup, having a slow drive will affect all read/writes. Is that the case with unraid's approach to parity?