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Hello, I've already purchased everything, DS1621+, six WD RED PRO 14TB, two 10gb switches, and two WD BLACK SN850X NVME SSD. I'm aware that the SN850X are too much, the NAS can't do PCIe 4.0, I wasted money on un-used performance. My question today is, I bought two SN850X 2TB, but it seems nobody else is doing that. Everyone else is doing 1TB or less. Should I use 1TB NVMe instead? Is 2TB NVMe too big? Did I also waste my money on too much NVMe SSD?

The size usually depends on average daily data use. Some video editos nee 1-2TB. But for home use it is usually enough with 500GB.
PCIe 4 is going to be bottlenecked around 2000MB/s but that's still fast enough. Also there are other things sometimes more important such as IOPS.
SN850X is a very reliable and good performing SSD.