August 9, 20214 yr Hi, Finally decided to ditch my Synology NAS and build an Unraid server. I got an Gigabyte Z590M motherboard / Intel 11700 / 2X16GB RAM in a Node 804 case. For the storage I will reuse my 5 WD Red drives (each 6TB). The only thing left to buy are 1 or 2 Nvme SSD's for the my cache pool. The motherboard has 2 M2 slots, one supporting Pcie 4 and the other Pcie 3 So now my question: Do I buy one Pcie 4? And what size would be fitted for my setup? Or do I buy two to put them in RAID1? If so do i buy 1 Pcie4 and 1 Pcie3? Or better 2 Pcie3? And what size? Thx in advance for the help! Edited August 9, 20214 yr by Kopernikus
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