Storage Setup

dannywaugh1 · 31 Mar 2020 at 12:20

Hi all,

What is your storage setup you have in your machine? Not backup.

Planning a new build and not sure on setup. I like plenty of storage in my machine and have a backup solution.

I have been thinking all SSD storage 2x NVME( 1 OS 500GB, 1 Games 1TB) along with couple SSDs for general storage. Plus I do plan to record game play in the future.

Thanks

ChrisLX200 · 31 Mar 2020 at 14:30

2x NVMe (1TB OS and 2TB Working), 3 x SSD (2.5 TB), 6 x HDD (total 28TB), 2 x external NAS (total 40TB), assorted USB drives (Total 12TB).

Edit.. forgot my 10TB Lian Li RAID box attached to the main NAS

Mcnumpty2323 · 31 Mar 2020 at 14:36

2 x mp510 960gb
1 x sm951 512gb
3 x Samsung 2.5 ssds
No internal mechanical drives I just pop those in and out an external Dock as required

dannywaugh1 · 1 Apr 2020 at 10:55

Seems more and more people moving from HDD and having more SSD for main machines.

BongoHunter · 1 Apr 2020 at 11:18

My main system currently has:

500 GB SATA Crucial MX500 for my Windows/Desktop Apps

500 GB NVME Crucial P1 for Games

3 x 250 GB NVME Samsung 960 Evos in a RAID stripe for virtual machines

2 x 280 GB Intel 900p drives that get used for anything that's really disk intensive (Databases etc) - no RAID for these

2 x 2TB HGST enterprise SATA HDDs in a RAID mirror for general storage

All of that gets backed up to a FreeNAS server

dannywaugh1 · 24 Apr 2020 at 11:47

BongoHunter said:
My main system currently has:

500 GB SATA Crucial MX500 for my Windows/Desktop Apps

500 GB NVME Crucial P1 for Games

3 x 250 GB NVME Samsung 960 Evos in a RAID stripe for virtual machines

2 x 280 GB Intel 900p drives that get used for anything that's really disk intensive (Databases etc) - no RAID for these

2 x 2TB HGST enterprise SATA HDDs in a RAID mirror for general storage

All of that gets backed up to a FreeNAS server

Like the idea of a Freenas. But I haven got a clue how to set one up. If I went to build a freenas it would need to be small quiet.

ChrisLX200 · 24 Apr 2020 at 12:32

dannywaugh1 said:
Like the idea of a Freenas. But I haven got a clue how to set one up. If I went to build a freenas it would need to be small quiet.

You don't need to have it sitting next to you - put the thing in the loft or garage (wherever you can get an ethernet cable to it...)

ED209 · 24 Apr 2020 at 20:36

I currently have the following

1 x Samsung 850 250gb - os drive.
1 x OCZ Trion 250gb - games drive.

in the process though of replacing both of the above drives with a NVME 1tb drive so I can then just have the one drive and I can remove the power and SATA cables as it’s a modular psu.

reason for upgrade is modern warfare (2019 version) now takes up 175gb on my games drive which is most of the space!