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Hey all,
got a dell optiplex 3080 mini with the following
256GB NVME (os drive)
1TB SSHD (storage drive)

So I picked up a 2TB NVME drive and a 1TB SSD to replace this drives...

I've shadow cloned the OS drive/partitions to the 1TB SSD

now the question is should I now clone it over to the NVME drive?

The storage drive will be mainly for virtual machines rather than your usual documents/file storage

The PC is used for web/email 90% of the time.
Running VM's come second
light gaming third
retro gaming (USB flash boot drive)

VMs will include (will most likely only run one at at time)
windows server
kasm
ubuntu
kali / parrot

steam games
enter the gungeon
deadcells
among us
etc

Ortial OC-150 1TB SATA III CORE 2.5 Inch Internal Solid State Drive SSD - OC-150-1TB
  • Read/Write Speed: 560 MBs / 510 MBs
  • IOPS Read/IOPS Write: 74,000/76,000
  • High-performance storage, Increased speed with the latest flash technologies
  • Developed specifically for laptops and desktops
  • Enhance everything from boot times, to responsiveness, to read/write speeds
Crucial P2 CT2000P2SSD8 2 TB Internal SSD, Up to 2400 MB/s (3D NAND, NVMe, PCIe, M.2)
  • Capacity: Up to 2TB with sequential reads/writes up to 2400MB/s/1900MB/s
  • NVMe PCIe interface, marking the next step in storage innovation
  • Includes SSD management software for performance optimization, data security, and firmware updates
  • Backed by a limited 5-year warranty or up to the max endurance rating of 600 TBW
What should I do?

Thank in advance


 
thanks
I've just ran a read/write test and have the following results.
given the heavy lifting will be performed on the P2 does it still make sense to have the OS on there?
I want to keep my OS and VMs separate.

Ortial
seq1m q8t1 R536.34 MB/s W492.20 MB/s
seq1m q1t1 R524.14 MB/s W475.97 MB/s
RND4K Q32T1 R118.57 MB/s W198.67 MB/s
RND4K Q1T1 R33.14 MB/s W95.47 MB/s

P2
seq1m q8t1 R2310.14 MB/s W2002.74 MB/s
seq1m q1t1 R1656.10 MB/s W1137.11 MB/s
RND4K Q32T1 R463.22 MB/s W369.52 MB/s
RND4K Q1T1 R51.51 MB/s W154.95 MB/s
 
Unless you have too little memory requiring constant paging, OS doesn't generate really any drive traffic after initial loading.
But using those VMs will certainly generate as much drive traffic as booting OS.
 
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