Monstieur
Limp Gawd
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- Jun 10, 2011
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I have an Optane 900p for the OS and applications, and 4x 2 TB NVMe striped in Storage Spaces (effectively RAID 0) for games and data. I incrementally backup to a single 10 TB HDD cached by another Optane 900p so the daily backup only takes a few minutes. You can use Intel Cache Acceleration Software for free with an Intel SSD.
I abandoned RAID 5 due to poor performance even with a hardware raid card. You need a write cache of several hundred GB for it to be fast with the size of today's games and movies. Since I had an Optane 900p cache, there was no need for RAID 5 and a single HDD was sufficient.
I abandoned RAID 5 due to poor performance even with a hardware raid card. You need a write cache of several hundred GB for it to be fast with the size of today's games and movies. Since I had an Optane 900p cache, there was no need for RAID 5 and a single HDD was sufficient.