MadMatt337 Posted December 12, 2021 Share Posted December 12, 2021 (edited) So I have read up on about everything I can find regarding this topic and watched space invaders video multiple times regarding the topic as well but was wondering if anyone may have some input regarding my current situation/setup. Currently setting up a new server, mainly used for general file storage, Plex, sonarr, Radarr, Usenet DL, plus one windows 10 VM as a fairly light use workstation. The build has 4 nvme drives, 2 x 1tb wd blue sn550s and 2 x 1tb wd black sn750s. My current thoughts are having the 2 blues together in one cache pool, raid 1, for protected write caching. 1 black is going to be strictly for the VM, I am doing this as my wife will primarily be using the VM as a work computer, direct connected with passed through video ect. and I wanted to keep it feeling as bare metal as possible. The other black I was planning on having for the docker containers and app data. Where I am stuck is where I should throw my downloads that won't negatively impact performance too much. I may consider separating it completely if need be but would prefer not to. My initial thought is to put it with the app data/docker cache pool, I feel like this drive had more than enough speed to handle both jobs, but maybe I am wrong. Any suggestions/feedback would be great, thanks everyone. Edited December 12, 2021 by MadMatt337 Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted December 12, 2021 Share Posted December 12, 2021 Probably not going to make much difference. Might make sense to put downloads on a pool separate from the pool you use for postprocessing, so unpacking reads from one pool and writes to another, for example. Quote Link to comment
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