NurseWizzle

I appreciate your very robust replies. I will read them very closely shortly. One thing that might be changing is my motherboard/CPU setup, which gives me a bit of a different situation now, perhaps. So I had the 2TB NVMe drive and the 2x1TB SSDs. With my new motherboard I'll have an additional NVMe slot, and I have a 1TB NVMe drive available to use as well. If it were you, how would you utilize these drives? I'm ok with the original plan if that's best. If it might be better somehow to use 2x NVMe and ditch the Sata SSDs I could do that. Heck, I would be ok using 2TB NVMe, 1TB NVMe, and both 1TB SSDs if that made sense.

I have a new install of unRaid, I have a pro license. I'm on version 7.0.1. This box will mostly be used for Plex/Jellyfin (not sure which yet) along with some sort of torrenting. I'll also be using it as as NAS for file storage of my photography files. I'm not sure what else I'll really be using it for yet. I guess I've always kinda wanted to try NextCloud or something like that. I'm not a big power user, that's for sure. Currently the only thing I have done is gotten an array set up (4 x 14TB HDD with one of them as parity) and got my media files on a share. I've installed both Plex and Jellyfin to see how those work and it seems to be going ok. I also have 2 x 1TB SSD and 1 x 2TB NVMe drive installed in my case, but do not have anything set up on them yet. It was suggested I could use the NVMe for cache and set up the 2 x 1TB for appdata and stuff like that. My problem is, I am having trouble wrapping my head around everything right now. I just got out of the hospital a few days ago with significant diabetes complications and a mild heart attack so my brain is so so so scattered. I was hoping though to get this thing fully automated here in the next week or so because I'm scheduled for open heart surgery in a couple weeks and want to make sure this thing is humming along nicely during my recovery period. I THINK what I should be doing is creating a pool called "cache" and adding the NVMe drive to that pool, and another pool called "data" and adding the two SSDs to that pool. But then I don't know what to do from there. If anyone wouldn't mind helping me I would appreciate it so much, I'll buy you a coffee or whatever!