September 15, 20223 yr I have an old Dell Optiplex that I have been using for unRAID/Plex but am moving to a new machine over this coming weekend. The Optiplex has (2) 8TB drive and an SSD that I use for cache. Runs unRAID off the flash drive with Plex, some .arrs and that's about it. No other OS. I haven't started really adding things to the library as far as media because I have known that the Dell was a temporary thing so essentially there is nothing on there that I would care about losing. The new system will have an NVMe 1Tb drive, and I will move another 8Tb drive into the array adding to the 2 that I already have and am taking from the old machine. I would also have the 500gb SSD from the other machine that was the cache. I am not really sure how to set it up in the best way. 1. If I don't care about the data on the current drives, should I just format them prior to installing in the new system and start from scratch? Like when I would do clean install of Windows over the years. Seems it always made things so much better. 2. I have read some say run the NVMe drive as the cache and maybe set it up to store the Appdata on the SSD. Not sure about that and if it's the best way to go. Would be grateful for any suggestions.
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