SSD install

[dredd1963 14]

Hi all

 

Am intending installing a SSD drive for my OS this year.

 

Am looking for any advice on best way too get the best out of my install/ OS/ Emby server software.

 

Any suggestions are welcome.

 

Thanks in advance

[Luke 37125]

Hi, SSD's are great. Emby default settings should be fine. Enjoy.

[dredd1963 14]

That's good news Luke Is there any fine tuning in general that could be done, would stuff like caches/transcoding be better off left on the SSD or moved to another drive?

[PVTD 37]

Heya!

Yes, keep everything job intensive on the SSD, all the rest move to a less important disk (HDD).

My transcoding happens on 2 SSD's to get the fastest read/write for content.

Here are my Paths:

Cache:
SSD

Logs:
HDD

Metadata:
HDD

Transcoding temporary files:
SSD

 

To be honest, everything is on SSD's for me, but it took a while to set it all up (buying multiple extra's to make it happen, so investment is needed)

[dredd1963 14]

Thanks 2 were was the way I ultimate way I was thinking of going.

[Guest asrequested]

SSDs are always good to improve performance. My OS is on a Samsung 950 Pro NVMe M.2 and I just added another Crucial M.2 SSD to use a transcode drive. I have convert on the fly enabled in the server. All my recorded tv is transcoded, so there's quite a lot of transcoding happening, and I wanted to take that load off the OS drive. It works very well. I also have drive pooling and have added SSDs to one of the pools for a cache.

[dredd1963 14]

Sounds like a plan thanks for your help

[ronvp 92]

if your motherboard suport it, go with M.2 SSD. it is faster and cheaper. Go for 4 Channel if possible.. Here is a good link to review..http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2855440/ssd-pcie-0x4-0x4.html

[dredd1963 14]

Hi

 

Unfortunately my motherboard doesn't support m.s sdd am afraid

[tyr_88 4]

Heya!

Yes, keep everything job intensive on the SSD, all the rest move to a less important disk (HDD).

My transcoding happens on 2 SSD's to get the fastest read/write for content.

Here are my Paths:

Cache:

SSD

Logs:

HDD

Metadata:

HDD

Transcoding temporary files:

SSD

 

To be honest, everything is on SSD's for me, but it took a while to set it all up (buying multiple extra's to make it happen, so investment is needed)

 

 

Same setup and on main PC workstation as a media server to and just chews it up barely noticeable if any.

 

My HDDs are WD Blacks anywhere from base 150 to 300 read/write

 

I am using a simple since build Kingston V300 120GB SSD I got for $45 and despite any neg reviews I can this is one amazing SSD line for the price since moving to Windows 10 I have seen 85+% transfer burst rate over 1,400mbps   yup 1.4gbps this only sporadically occurs and never happened pre-win10

[tyr_88 4]

Hi

 

Unfortunately my motherboard doesn't support m.s sdd am afraid

 

If you go with a M2 drive take note you will lose 2 SATA ports

[Guest asrequested]

If you go with a M2 drive take note you will lose 2 SATA ports

 

2? My NVMe M.2 doesn't use any SATA ports and my Crucial M.2 uses one SATA port. How are you losing 2 ports with one M.2 drive? You may need a better motherboard.

[tyr_88 4]

2? My NVMe M.2 doesn't use any SATA ports and my Crucial M.2 uses one SATA port. How are you losing 2 ports with one M.2 drive? You may need a better motherboard.

 

 

I use the best boards around EVGA for desktop builds but on some you will drop 2 sata post unless you are on up to date 270 platforms some z170 platforms will not loose 2 sata.

 

Not on all not on ever make comment was suppose say you can lose up to 2

 

 

It's not not a secret and they are not crappy boards and info is pretty easy to pull up for PCIe boards

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=lose+2+sata+ports+with+m2+drive

 

 

Best to learn your boards first

[Guest asrequested]

Well, I have two on one board and only one sata port is used. I guess gigabyte boards are the way to go.

Edited March 14, 2017 by Doofus

[tyr_88 4]

Well, I have two on one board and only one sata port is used. I guess gigabyte boards are the way to go.

 

I guess you should research boards more lol

 

New 270 platform take 0 on dual M2s

 

Depends on if new mid makes, of later when they were introduced on the boards

 

 

Then you need consider the factor of SLI - TRi SLI- or Quad

 

 

Also made correction you can lose up to 2 SATA ports on certain boards even you say you one lost so it's a model, release compatibility thing when it comes to this like I said know your boards. M2 introduction to mid tech to fully integrated now on top line boards run dual M2s without any port loss

Edited March 14, 2017 by tyr_88

[Guest asrequested]

Yeah, I'm actually about to upgrade to a Z270 board. Both of my present boards are Z170. Do NVMe M.2s not apply to this? Because mine doesn't use a sata port.

[PenkethBoy 2063]

Its down to the pcie lanes that the cpu supports

 

new cpu's have higher numbers - older/cheaper one's unsurprisingly less

 

so m/b manufactures have to make choices - and you get better options on high end boards

 

so losing two sata ports to be able to run a M.2 drive - is down to the cpu (type and version) and the m/b level (cost and age)

Edited March 14, 2017 by PenkethBoy

[tyr_88 4]

Its down to the pcie lanes that the cpu supports

 

new cpu's have higher numbers - older/cheaper one's unsurprisingly less

 

so m/b manufactures have to make choices - and you get better options on high end boards

 

so losing two sata ports to be able to run a M.2 drive - is down to the cpu (type and version) and the m/b level (cost and age)

 

 

Why I rephrased you can lose up 2 ports meaning on some.

 

I run Z170 platform on a EVGA FTW board then came then babylakes

 

 

Basically all mentioned above CPU vs low grade edition of a board to higher grade but I'm sure the 270 platforms will have this fixed not read up much on them just eye candy makes me want to build again

[Guest asrequested]

Ah right! Of course.

[tyr_88 4]

Ah right! Of course.

 

 

It also depends on the drives as well if you really wanna dig into the brands / models

 

 

This occurred across all lines some drives would cause 0 loss and some I have seen took out x2 sata ports + E-sata

 

 

just first couple in results

 

https://www.google.com/search?q=losing+sata+ports+with+m2+drive&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

 

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3102091/asus-z170-pro-gaming-port-disables-sata-port.html

Edited March 15, 2017 by tyr_88

[PenkethBoy 2063]

the drive does not affect the number of ports available

 

its if they share the pci-e lanes between the m.2 port and sata ports in the m/b design - i.e. you can only use one not both - which is what they are talking about in your second link

[tyr_88 4]

the drive does not affect the number of ports available

 

its if they share the pci-e lanes between the m.2 port and sata ports in the m/b design - i.e. you can only use one not both - which is what they are talking about in your second link

 

awesome to know still earlier boards ate up sata ports and it depended on the make and manufacturer of the board/drives when the tech for m.2 was finally released but it's like kicking a dead horse or debating a concrete wall here everyones 100% right

[dredd1963 14]

***UPDATE***

 

Brought two Scandisk SDD PLUS 120gb drives in the end.

 

One for my Dell Inspiron - server

 

One for my Dell Optiplex 740 - htpc

 

I thought that the Optiplex would give me problems, as this as for some people I have read on the the internet, but I set the pc back to its defaults before installing the see and did not have any of the reported issues that I had read about.

 

All in all I am so far happy with the install.

[Luke 37125]

Thanks for the info !