The current NAS series from Ugreen seems to be a good platform for a small home setup, but I am struggling a bit with choosing the right disk constellation.
I am planning with the DXP4800 (Intel N100 4 cores, 8 GB RAM) and installing PVE on it. The main consideration here is power efficiancy since this thing will be idle most of the time.
The setup will serve for both backup purposes of family members (through sshfs) and a few VMs or containers that will run things like nextcloud, email and plex.
There may be about 10 users eventually and the system should run with good performance when 2 or 3 are accessing the services simultaneously.
When it comes to the optimal disk setup for this purpose I am unsure however. I was considering to go with 4x 4TB NAS HDDs, one nvme ssd for VMs, another nvme for read cache and the OS installed on the internal flash. But I have no clue if this would provide a decent combination with the rest of the hardware. Would sata SSDs for storage instead of HDDs make sense or would that be a waste of money? Do I need a read cache or will other components provide a bottleneck? Would it be an option to have both read and write cache on a single nvme? Since no USP is used, should a write cache be avoided?
I am planning with the DXP4800 (Intel N100 4 cores, 8 GB RAM) and installing PVE on it. The main consideration here is power efficiancy since this thing will be idle most of the time.
The setup will serve for both backup purposes of family members (through sshfs) and a few VMs or containers that will run things like nextcloud, email and plex.
There may be about 10 users eventually and the system should run with good performance when 2 or 3 are accessing the services simultaneously.
When it comes to the optimal disk setup for this purpose I am unsure however. I was considering to go with 4x 4TB NAS HDDs, one nvme ssd for VMs, another nvme for read cache and the OS installed on the internal flash. But I have no clue if this would provide a decent combination with the rest of the hardware. Would sata SSDs for storage instead of HDDs make sense or would that be a waste of money? Do I need a read cache or will other components provide a bottleneck? Would it be an option to have both read and write cache on a single nvme? Since no USP is used, should a write cache be avoided?