dodgypast Posted May 7, 2019 Share Posted May 7, 2019 (edited) What I'm looking for is advice as to how I want my setup to work: Harware available: 1x128Gb SSD 1x256Gb SSD 1x2Tb ( 7200 RPM ) 1x3Tb ( 7200 RPM ) 1x4Tb ( 5400 RPM ) 5x8Tb ( 4xSeagate Archive drives, 1x 8Tb ) 1xRyzen 1700x, 16Gb RAM, nVidia 970GTX What I want to do: Windows gaming, office and other windows only apps. ( ideally the windows desktop would be the interface I use to manage it ) Download and seed huge quantities of torrents over VPN Run Plex (not over VPN ) / Sonarr / Jackett, Ombi is a plus. How would I go about making the best of my hardware to meet my goals. Edited May 7, 2019 by dodgypast Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted May 7, 2019 Share Posted May 7, 2019 How much of that storage capacity do you actually need now? I would recommend just using the larger spinners in the parity array and leave those small ones out, at least for now. Fewer disks means fewer opportunities for problems. The 2 SSDs won't make a good mirrored cache due to their different sizes. You can use them both in the cache pool but with no redundancy. 1 Quote Link to comment
whipdancer Posted May 7, 2019 Share Posted May 7, 2019 Unfortunately, there are a lot of ways to do that. There is a wealth of information provided by @SpaceInvaderOne on his Youtube page - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZDfnUn74N0WeAPvMqTOrtA/playlists See what you can learn there, then come back if you have more specific questions. Quote Link to comment
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