Storage Setup

[dannywaugh1]

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

 

[dannywaugh1]

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

 

[dannywaugh1]

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.