Hi,

I have a QNAP 253BE and it has served me well for years! I have just given it a bit of upgrade and boost today by adding some SSD's. I'm just setting it back up and not sure if I am configuring it in the best way...

The NAS only serves film and music media. The only apps I use are Emby server for films and a Plex server for music. Also have SABNZB+ installed. That's about it. How would you configure my set up?

QNAP 253BE
16GB RAM
2 x 4TB Seagate Ironwolf Hard Drives
QNAP QM2-2S-220A expansion card
2 x 2TB Western Digital Red SA500 SSD's

I have just set up both SSDs as the system (raid 0) and then the HDD also as raid 0 for media archive. My thinking behind this was have the SSD's for system and apps, along with new downloaded content and then HDD as the main media store. Looking in the NAS admin and options now available to me, should I have gone for...

1 x SSD as system and app drive, 1 x SSD for cache and HDD for media archive.

Would this improve things even further? Currently it's now performing loads better on SSD's than previously on just HDD. Would adding a cache make much difference for me? Media files are always large files and the NAS only has 1 or 2 devices connecting to it at the same time.

Also would the expansion card bottle neck having both the cache and system running through it?

Anyways, I thought it was a good time to ask the pro's before I finish up the set up. It wouldn't be a major job to start again and reconfigure the setup.

Let me know what you think.
Cheers
Stu

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