probably silly question, going from 2 drives to 1 drive + ssd

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Hello,

Love your site, trying to figure out way to improve my NAS for plex. I recently upgraded from the QNAP 251-B to 251-D, and also added a QNAP QM2-2S-220A Dual M.2 22110/2280 SATA SSD Expansion Card (PCIe Gen2 X2) because i thought it would help with cacheing. I currently have 2 hard drives, 1 4TB, 1 6GB. What i didn't realize is I believe I need an SSD drive to get the expansion card to work. So, i'm considering getting 1 10TB drive and 1 1TB SSD drive, but what I'm confused about is whether my current setup will port over? I don't have an existing RAID setup, does this mean I need to essentially start from scratch? In your opinion, is it worth it? Thanks so much!

Chris

https://nascompares.com/2019/08/07/how-to-improve-plex-performance-on-your-nas-drive-part-1/

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Yes, in order to have caching, you will need at least one M.2 SSD. One stick will allow write cache. Dual SSD will also enable write cache. Most of the time 2x500GB is all you need for home use.
If you have set up your NAS with a single drive, you can migrate to RAID1 easily.
Here is how https://docs.qnap.com/nas-outdated/QTS4....B255C.html

I hope this helps.