Correct use of high end disks


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Okay I have 4 purposes of this machine 1. Gaming 2. Media center 3 storage 4 surveillance.

 

as of now I put 3 10tb in an array and two 256gb cache disk as caching.

 

i have 3 nve 512gb installed in the rig but heard a lot against it. How should I properly use them? I was thinking to assign then to the array ans store Vm data in them since it’s possible to choose disks.

 

for example my window I want to pass 1080ti and directly one of the ssd

 

the other ssd I was thinking for osx

 

third I was thinking for smaller vm like hassos / home assistant.

 

would that be a good structure? Also keep the 3 nve to their specific need (in array or not?)

 

tgen everythung else is srorage, tv, video etc

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It is not normally recommended to use SSD as array disks as the moment you add a parity disk the write performance will be limited which can severely affect write performance of VMs.   If you do not want to use them as cache disks, then the way most people handle this is to have them mounted as Unassigned Devices (via the Unassigned Devices plugin) and then they are free to be used however you want.

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