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Just wondered what you guys have as storage and your main use? 

 

I've got my OSs (Windows and Linux) on their respective SSDs and a large 2TB for games and media.

 

Not the safest and most redundant storage but my data isn't critical. Now considering setting up a Raspberry Pi for low importance filesharing 

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120GB SSD for OS, programs, home folder, etc, 1TB HDD pretty much exclusively for games but also larger things such as OS ISOs, VM images, etc.

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I have a 250gb 600p for bootup.

 

and a tiered raid 0 in storage spaces with a sun f40 and 4x 2tb hdds. Fairly fast, all old parts. Just steam games so I don't care about losing it.

 

For the nas I got proxmox and zfs. raid 1 for boot drives, raid 50(kinda) of 4 and 8tb hdds for data, and a 8 drive raid zero for vms using sun f40 drives. one of those sun f40 drives is used as swap aswell.

 

For the colocated server, I got ssds in raid 1 for vms, raid 5 of hdds for storage, and a raid 1 of the 16gb optane m.2s for boot.

 

I think I got some weird setups.

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I can't stand programs on an HDD anymore - too slow for me. All OS and programs/games are on a 512gb NVMe SSD (Samsung 960 Pro). I have a 2tb WD Black for mass storage/file hoarding. I don't understand how people are okay with running anything off an HDD anymore. It just kills me.

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I switched to full SSD now.

500GB 970 Pro for my OS

1TB 980 Pro for files

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Just now, TempestCatto said:

I can't stand programs on an HDD anymore - too slow for me. All OS and programs/games are on a 512gb NVMe SSD (Samsung 960 Pro). I have a 2tb WD Black for mass storage/file hoarding. I don't understand how people are okay with running anything off an HDD anymore. It just kills me.

I timed launching programs from SSD and the HDD. Some take the exact same time. Browsers and other frequently used programs always go to the SSD. 

 

I personally don't care about games being on an HDD they may take 10 to 20 seconds more but the games I play don't have that many loading screens anyways 

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250GB SSD (M.2 NVME): OS, some programs, couple games

2TB HDD: general stuff, some small programs, (long term) video storage, etc.

1TB SSD (M.2 SATA): some games (specifically Dirt Rally 2.0, Skyrim and some Wii ISOs), short term video storage, cache drive.

 

Probably gonna add a large HDD (4-6TB)  and maybe another SSD too.

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128GB Crucial M4 for Windows

80GB HDD for Linux Mint 17.3 (once I install it)

250GB HDD for storage

2TB HDD for storage

3TB HDD for backups/storage (split into 2.5TB and 500GB partitions)

16GB Optane stick for storage (until I upgrade my motherboard, then it's a cache for the 2TB HDD)

16GB Optane stick (not currently in use due to no free M.2 slots, will be a dedicated page file drive)

 

Going to buy a Crucial MX500 500GB for Big Sur.

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2 minutes ago, light-v said:

I timed launching programs from SSD and the HDD. Some take the exact same time. Browsers and other frequently used programs always go to the SSD. 

 

I personally don't care about games being on an HDD they may take 10 to 20 seconds more but the games I play don't have that many loading screens anyways 

One thing to note is that windows will cache program files in ram, so you might not even be testing disk io, but cpu speed and how fast it can read from ram. 

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Desktop:

1TB NVMe for OS and programs

3x 250GB SATA SSDs for everything else

 

Server:

240GB SATA SSD for OS

1TB SATA SSD for low priority VMs

1TB NVMe for high priority VMs

1TB NVMe for user profiles and caching

250GB SATA SSD for misc storage

250GB SATA SSD for caching

28TB of mass storage, various HDD sizes.

 

All other systems are basically using 240GB SSDs for everything local and store everything else on the server.

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Main desktop: 

Drive #1 - Samsung SSD 860 PRO 256GB (238 GB) F:
Drive #2 - PLEXTOR PX-256M5S (238 GB) D:
Drive #3 - PLEXTOR PX-256M5S (238 GB) D:
Drive #4 - PLEXTOR PX-256M5S (238 GB) D:
Drive #5 - PLEXTOR PX-256M5S (238 GB) D:
Drive #6 - NVMe    INTEL SSDPE21D96 (894 GB) C:
Drive #7 - NVMe    INTEL SSDPEKNW01 (953 GB) E:
Drive #8 - NVMe    INTEL SSDPEKNW01 (953 GB)

Drives 2-5 are software raid0 just for creating single volume out of them. Drive 8 is linux.

 

NAS 1: 

NAME           STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
homedata       ONLINE       0     0     0
  raidz2-0     ONLINE       0     0     0
    sda        ONLINE       0     0     0 Device Model:     TOSHIBA DT01ACA200
    sdf        ONLINE       0     0     0 Device Model:     TOSHIBA DT01ACA200
    sdg        ONLINE       0     0     0 Device Model:     ST2000DL003-9VT166
    sdh        ONLINE       0     0     0 Device Model:     Hitachi HDS722020ALA330
    sdd        ONLINE       0     0     0 Device Model:     TOSHIBA DT01ACA200
    sdb        ONLINE       0     0     0 Device Model:     TOSHIBA DT01ACA200
    sde        ONLINE       0     0     0 Device Model:     TOSHIBA DT01ACA200
    sdk        ONLINE       0     0     0 Device Model:     TOSHIBA DT01ACA200
    sdi        ONLINE       0     0     0 Device Model:     ST2000DM006-2DM164
    sdc        ONLINE       0     0     0 Device Model:     TOSHIBA DT01ACA200
logs
  mirror-1     ONLINE       0     0     0
    nvme0n1p3  ONLINE       0     0     0 Device Model:     m.2 Smartbuy PS5013-2280T 128GB
    nvme1n1p3  ONLINE       0     0     0 Device Model:     m.2 Smartbuy PS5013-2280T 128GB

NAME       SIZE  ALLOC   FREE  EXPANDSZ   FRAG    CAP  DEDUP  HEALTH  ALTROOT
homedata  18.1T  13.1T  5.03T         -     5%    72%  1.00x  ONLINE  -

OS is installed on SSD-s in soft raid1. ECC. This one is used for archival/long-term storage and is not always on.

 

NAS 2: 

NAME        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
xdata       ONLINE       0     0     0
  raidz1-0  ONLINE       0     0     0
    sdc     ONLINE       0     0     0 Device Model:     WDC WD40EZRX-00SPEB0
    sdd     ONLINE       0     0     0 Device Model:     TOSHIBA HDWE140
    sde     ONLINE       0     0     0 Device Model:     TOSHIBA HDWE140
logs
  sdb4      ONLINE       0     0     0 Device Model:     WDC WDS240G1G0A-00SS50

NAME    SIZE  ALLOC   FREE  EXPANDSZ   FRAG    CAP  DEDUP  HEALTH  ALTROOT
xdata  10,9T  8,0T    2.84T        -     2%    73%  1.00x  ONLINE  -

This is temporary storage and daily backups from desktop. This is always on. OS is on ssd. No ECC. Not the most reliable configuration in the world, but hardware here has only 4 sata ports and no usable way to add more, so it is what it is...

 

Everything else is not worth mentioning. Laptops, old pc-s etc all use single ssd for OS and NAS 2 for backups.

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