[Help] How to choose which SSD slots to use?

welcometors

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Hi

I've brought Minisforum MS-01 and have been running proxmox from last 4 months on a single Samsung 3.84TB PM9A3 U.2 SSD drive stably.
Now, I've brought 2 more Samsung 3.84TB NVME SSD PM983.

The device has 3 slots
1. U.2 PCIe 4.0 x4 (max 8 GB/s) used by PM9A3 U.2 SSD (7 Gbsps)
2. M.2 PCIe 3.0 x4 (max 4 GB/s) used by NVME SSD PM983 (3.2 Gbps)
3. M.2 PCIe 3.0 x2 (max 2 GB/s) used by NVME SSD PM983 (3.2 Gbps)

Now I want to install proxmox on mirrored zfs. And used the same mirror for mission critical VMs/LXCs like next-cloud and postgresql.
And use the other drive as lvm for everything else (like jellyfin and arr stack other non-critical stuff). This should be fine as I take regular backups on my synology nas.

What should I do?
Option 1: Use 1&2 as mirrored zfs effective speed will be 3.2Gbps and 3 as all other VMs (2Gbps)
Option 2: Use 2&3 as mirrored zfs effective speed will be 2Gbps and 1 as all other VMs (7Gbps)
 
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