dedrick427
Cadet
- Joined
- Mar 14, 2022
- Messages
- 2
I have four 2tb SSDs (Samsung 870 QVO) and four 6TB HDDs (Seagate Iron Wolf Pro 7200rpm, with 4 open bays that I can later expand with). The OS is installed on an M.2 on the motherboard. When installing I noticed I have a lot of option to use the SSDs to speed up the HDD pools, like cache, file tables, and so on (I can't remember off the top of my head), but it seems like it'd have to use the entire SSD for these
I planned on grabbing a RAID controller to be able to create virtual drives, then present a few smaller volumes and one large volume so that I could use the SSDs to speed up the HDDs and also for faster storage, but now I'm reading to avoid RAID controllers (and I agree, but I'm kind of limited here)
I'd like to maximize my performance and storage -- this will be used for a few VMs, a Plex Server, NextCloud, and possibly a repo for Steam games. Is there a way to software-RAID the SSDs, and then use those volumes for the cache/file info/etc? Is there something obvious I'm over-looking? I've spent so much money so far and I really don't want to back myself into a bad configuration
More detailed parts list:
Ryzen 5600G APU
4x Samsung 2tb 870 QVO
4x Seagate 6TB Iron Wolf Pro ST6000NE000
SilverStone DS380B Case (4 2.5 bays, 8 3.5 bays)
I also have on had:
LSI 9240-8i (I can flash it either way)
SupaHub 8-port SATAIII card
I'm not opposed to buying a new HBA/SATA controller if I need to
Thanks!
I planned on grabbing a RAID controller to be able to create virtual drives, then present a few smaller volumes and one large volume so that I could use the SSDs to speed up the HDDs and also for faster storage, but now I'm reading to avoid RAID controllers (and I agree, but I'm kind of limited here)
I'd like to maximize my performance and storage -- this will be used for a few VMs, a Plex Server, NextCloud, and possibly a repo for Steam games. Is there a way to software-RAID the SSDs, and then use those volumes for the cache/file info/etc? Is there something obvious I'm over-looking? I've spent so much money so far and I really don't want to back myself into a bad configuration
More detailed parts list:
Ryzen 5600G APU
4x Samsung 2tb 870 QVO
4x Seagate 6TB Iron Wolf Pro ST6000NE000
SilverStone DS380B Case (4 2.5 bays, 8 3.5 bays)
I also have on had:
LSI 9240-8i (I can flash it either way)
SupaHub 8-port SATAIII card
I'm not opposed to buying a new HBA/SATA controller if I need to
Thanks!