October 20, 201510 yr I've currently got 2 x Intel 730 480GB SSD's in my cache pool. I'm looking to double that capacity by adding a 960GB drive. Are there any kind of best practices with regard to matching brands/specs or is capacity size really all that matters when picking a drive in this situation? The reason I ask is that Intel doesn't make the 730 in anything bigger than 480GB and while I'd love to stick with these high quality drives, I can't justify spending over $500 on two 480GB drives when there other single drive 960GB options (see below) for $200 less. Not to mention I'm running low on SATA ports. SanDisk Ultra II 960GB SATA III 2.5-Inch 7mm Height Solid State Drive (SSD) Crucial M500 960GB SATA 2.5-Inch 7mm Internal Solid State Drive CT960M500SSD1
October 20, 201510 yr I can't answer the question, but why so big Cache drive ?! I thought I was crazy with my single 480GB SSD
October 21, 201510 yr Author I can't answer the question, but why so big Cache drive ?! I thought I was crazy with my single 480GB SSD Well for starters, half my cache right now is taken up by Dockers (mainly Plex). That doesn't leave me a lot of wiggle room with regard to copying large amounts of data to my cache drive. I'd also like to setup a cache only "Games" share for use with Steam.
October 21, 201510 yr Ok, using it for steam would be good for speed! I guess you want to run a VM with Pass-thru of a video card for gaming? Do you store your Plex medias on the Cache?! I have a 10-12TB of PLEX data and I use a 125GB of Docker.img (20GB is used on that image). My PLEX library is on the appdata share and is just using 15GB. You must have a reallllllllly big PLEX Lib
October 21, 201510 yr Author Ok, using it for steam would be good for speed! I guess you want to run a VM with Pass-thru of a video card for gaming? Do you store your Plex medias on the Cache?! I have a 10-12TB of PLEX data and I use a 125GB of Docker.img (20GB is used on that image). My PLEX library is on the appdata share and is just using 15GB. You must have a reallllllllly big PLEX Lib Yea I'm going to give GPU passthrough a shot at some point. As for Plex, I've got 1650 movies and over 13,000 TV episodes. I'm not sure how large that is considered. I do also have "generate thumbnails" enabled on both those libraries which is what takes up most of the space.
October 21, 201510 yr Oh ok, I don't use the "Generate Thumbnails". What is the benefits of using it? Is this only for Apple TV to have screenshot when fast-forwarding ??
October 21, 201510 yr Author Oh ok, I don't use the "Generate Thumbnails". What is the benefits of using it? Is this only for Apple TV to have screenshot when fast-forwarding ?? It's for most devices I believe. I use it within PlexWeb, my Android phone and my gf's iPad. I know some of my users use it on Roku. For example if I'm casting from my android phone to my Chromecast it allows me to find specific spots in shows/movies as I drag the playbar along. It really is helpful in my opinion and now that I'm used to it I'd really miss it if I turned the feature off.
October 21, 201510 yr Author So can anyone comment on the idea of purchasing one of the linked SSD's in the OP to add to my current cache pool?
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