NVME myths and recommendations

Mitzy

Mitzy

Mitzy

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I’ve read that NVME drives can wear out with excessive writes.

My PC is used as a seedbox / media server. I probably move about 200TB a year. My use case is that I use the NVME as a temp folder for Usenet and Torrents then off load to HDDs for long term storage.

My 1TB NVME isn’t really big enough for the job as I can have a lot queued and quickly run out of space.

Is there a sweet spot for NVME longevity and on the other end of that, what drives or technologies are the best to lookout for with my use case?
 
It’s recommended for both torrents and Usenet, especially if you’re racing. Which I’m not lol.

The biggest benefit I noticed was with Usenet, unpacking 70GB Remux is significantly faster using NVME. I do take your point though, probably best to move away from using the NVME for this purpose. I’ll need to replace that drive, I guess looks like I’ll be lucky if I get 2 years out of it.

If I download to HDD and unpack to HDD I bottleneck because the unpack and download compete with each other and everything slows down significantly. If the initial download is to NVME then it unpacks to HDD it speeds everything up significantly.

What happens when the drive health gets to 0, does that mean it won’t work at all or will it just be slow?
 
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I really appreciate all the input.

I think what I’ll do is grab a decent 2/4TB NVME and add that into my system. I’ll have a look at those Samsung and I’ve also seen the FireCuda ones recommended for writes, so I’ll see what I can get the cheapest.

I’ll keep my existing NVME as boot and then off load the heavy stuff to the 2nd NVME.

As an example, today I’ve downloaded about 5TB of movies, all Usenet. The downloads finished hours ago but because of the volume of stuff the unpacks couldn’t make any movement, god knows when these will be ready.
 
I know you’re right and that’s why I post here, you guys take my expectations down lol can you not just let me buy another drive ;)
 
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