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Thoughts on NVMe SSD Use in Ugreen NAS - tpullano - 01-05-2025
I've been a Synology user (first NAS) for a few years. Purchased their low-end DS220J with two 2TB Iron Wolf HDDs. Have them raided (RAID 1) and an external 300MB external USB SSD attached (which I just use as a backup of my media folders). So I have 1.8TB of usable storage in the NAS, which is fine for the below that I've listed.
Need to move on since that NAS comes with only 512MB of RAM and not upgradeable. Tried installing Home Assistant, but no go. Simple movement within the DSM software drags, etc.
So I purchased a UGREEN 2-bay DXP2800 and a 16GB RAM card (which will replace the 8MB card that comes installed (only one RAM slot unfortunately)).
What I have and want going forward, in order of importance:
- Raid 1 for the two drives
- Backup of critical local device folders - I have 3 PCs running Linux (Synology uses the desktop app, Drive Sync). So maybe Syncthing? Or does the UGOS Sync & Backup up perform this?
- Plex - current music, movies, etc. on DSM. Running Plexamp on my phone to listen to my library while away, so need remote access
- Shared Contacts - Currently using Synology Contacts to centralize our contacts and their info to print out lists, etc. Seems a Docker app called Radicale that hosts a caldav server may be the way?
My question is using the two NVMe slots. I purchased two Crucial P3 Plus 500GB PCIe Gen4 MVMe's. Lots of banter on how to use them, so obviously I am confused. Should I:
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- My first choice...use one for read caching and the other for installing maybe Plex or Docker in order to run faster, leaving data on the NAS?
- Raid both and use for read-write caching?
- Use both for extra storage? Which I doubt I'll need
[*]Only using about 400GB of space currently. Appreciate any thoughts on which way to go, advantage/disadvantages