Hey guys, just wanted to get some feedback for new build. I have some very noob questions, but I'm not really up on the best way to use storage these days.
Current setup is 120Gb c300 ssd cached to a 2TB HDD. I have found this adequate speed wise up to now.
I am planning X99 Sabertooth and was thinking to use M.2 for boot (Win10) with a HyperX Predator (not sure which size to use). I thought it better to have maybe x2 1TB ssd for local storage and I also have a WD 6TB My Cloud Mirror NAS Storage but its still in the box.
I have quite a bit of photo and video and a large amount of games installed. I also have a lot of images I want to move off an iMac to NAS.
1)Should the boot M.2 be just that (I assume caching an ssd to another ssd is pointless and only made sense for caching to a hdd?)
2)The x2 1TB drives, do I need to have them in raid or will there be no benefit? Should I install my game files here and not on NAS?
3)Only use the NAS for video/music/photo files?
4)Can you cache the NAS to boot drive? I'm assuming this isn't possible due to usb??
5)Could I use my old hdd and cache it to M.2 or would I lose data from hdd if I needed to use it. I'm pretty sure in the original setup of this I selected the option which meant you'd lose data if cache drive failed, can't remember what you call it.
If I've got it all wrong then can you please advise best setup. Its mainly gaming, video and picture editing use.
Thanks
Current setup is 120Gb c300 ssd cached to a 2TB HDD. I have found this adequate speed wise up to now.
I am planning X99 Sabertooth and was thinking to use M.2 for boot (Win10) with a HyperX Predator (not sure which size to use). I thought it better to have maybe x2 1TB ssd for local storage and I also have a WD 6TB My Cloud Mirror NAS Storage but its still in the box.
I have quite a bit of photo and video and a large amount of games installed. I also have a lot of images I want to move off an iMac to NAS.
1)Should the boot M.2 be just that (I assume caching an ssd to another ssd is pointless and only made sense for caching to a hdd?)
2)The x2 1TB drives, do I need to have them in raid or will there be no benefit? Should I install my game files here and not on NAS?
3)Only use the NAS for video/music/photo files?
4)Can you cache the NAS to boot drive? I'm assuming this isn't possible due to usb??
5)Could I use my old hdd and cache it to M.2 or would I lose data from hdd if I needed to use it. I'm pretty sure in the original setup of this I selected the option which meant you'd lose data if cache drive failed, can't remember what you call it.
If I've got it all wrong then can you please advise best setup. Its mainly gaming, video and picture editing use.
Thanks