October 13, 2025Oct 13 As the title says. Here's my setup:I have an array with a bunch of HDDs for Plex.I have 2 x 1TB old NVMe SSDs in RAID 1 btrfs from when I started my NAS, and Appdata lives there.I have 2 x 4TB modern NVMe SSDs in RAID 1 btrfs which I bought to make a dedicated high-availability share for files I use often (nextcloud, immich, etc ). I got frustrated with HDD speeds and latency for daily use files, when I have 10G networking in my home.But then it hit me that I may as well just migrate Appdata onto the modern, high endurance 4TB drives.Pros:Frees up PCIe lanes from 2 NVMes instead of 4.Lowers power consumption for the same reason.Migrates Appdata to new drives with fresh, and longer lasting endurance.The new drives don't thermal throttle, unlike the piece of shit that was the Crucial P1.Cons:Less neat, due to not having dedicated pools for each use (not really an issue?)Depending on use cases, Appdata endurance becomes vulnerable to write wear caused by the high-availability share. But these drives have much more endurance, and aren't at the end of their life like the current Appdata SSDs. Plus I run the appdata backup plugin daily due to game servers living there.Am I missing anything? It feels like there's no downside to consolidating, but it feels wrong to me. Hence why I'm fishing for ideas/experience.Thoughts? Edited October 14, 2025Oct 14 by SinoBreizh
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