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[–] NightAuthor@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I was using HDDs, and I believe it may have been a little less of an issue bc I had Unraid configured to keep the drives spun up (I’ve read the spin up is hard on the drive, not so much the time being spun up)

But I did occasionally have some IOWait issues. Reds plus a NVME cache has resolved all those issues.

[–] indigomirage@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

My concern (back then) with keeping the greens spun up would be that I'd lose the energy savings potential of them without the benefits of a purpose built NAS drive.

In my current NAS, I just have a pair of WD Red+. I don't have a NVME cache or anything but it's never been an issue given my limited needs.

I am starting to plan out my next NAS though, as the current on (Synology DS716+) has been running for a long time. I figure I can get a couple more years out of it, but I want to have something in the wings planned just in case. (seriously looking at a switch to TrueNas but grappling with price for HW vs appliance...). My hope is that SSDs drop on price enough to make the leap when the time comes.