dredd1963 14 Posted March 5, 2017 Share Posted March 5, 2017 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37348 Posted March 5, 2017 Share Posted March 5, 2017 Hi, SSD's are great. Emby default settings should be fine. Enjoy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dredd1963 14 Posted March 5, 2017 Author Share Posted March 5, 2017 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PVTD 37 Posted March 5, 2017 Share Posted March 5, 2017 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) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dredd1963 14 Posted March 5, 2017 Author Share Posted March 5, 2017 Thanks 2 were was the way I ultimate way I was thinking of going. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted March 5, 2017 Share Posted March 5, 2017 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dredd1963 14 Posted March 5, 2017 Author Share Posted March 5, 2017 Sounds like a plan thanks for your help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronvp 92 Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dredd1963 14 Posted March 13, 2017 Author Share Posted March 13, 2017 Hi Unfortunately my motherboard doesn't support m.s sdd am afraid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyr_88 4 Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyr_88 4 Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyr_88 4 Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyr_88 4 Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PenkethBoy 2063 Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 (edited) 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 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyr_88 4 Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 Ah right! Of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyr_88 4 Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PenkethBoy 2063 Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyr_88 4 Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dredd1963 14 Posted June 4, 2017 Author Share Posted June 4, 2017 ***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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37348 Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 Thanks for the info ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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