September 28, 20241 yr Currently rocking a 512gb sata SSD as my cache drive. Also have 2 M2 256gb nvme drives which are housing some VM's each. Is it a good / better idea to replace everything with 2 2tb NVME drives and run them in raid for redundancy? I feel like I have to much connected to the system not getting properly used and it would be good to remove the sata SSD to free up room for another disk when the time comes. If so whats a reliable NVME drive to go for? If you wouldn't do this based on my setup please let me know what you would do instead, I am all for suggestions.
September 29, 20241 yr Solution I'm pretty new to unraid myself so take this with a grain of salt. I think the answer depends on your objective, what you hope to gain. I appears you have good VM performance since they are on your current nvme drive. Is space the issue? If that is the case, then upgrading would keep your speed while improving your available storage. If redundancy is important, then I think that answers your question. 2 x 2TB NVme drives in Raid 1 would be nice for sure. I've heard good things about Segate Firecuda NVme drives for durability and performance. The 2TB versions were on Amazon for $129 each not too long ago (maybe they still are).
September 29, 20241 yr Author Appreciate the reply. Yes I think that is what I will be doing, thought if I was looking at things the wrong way I would likely be told on here. 2 x 2 in raid 1 will be the plan, see what I can find on a deal during the prime sale Will re-purpose the other drives for other things as well.
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