1971camaroguy 23 Posted December 4, 2019 Share Posted December 4, 2019 Since there were some decent deals black friday I decided to upgrade my current set-up. Still keeping windows 10 as the OS, running Emby. The gigabyte motherboard has a slot for a M2 Drive, my current set-up I am using a 1tb WD SSD for the main OS, EMBY and Cache. I am wondering if I would benefit from using the M2 slot and the fastest M2 drive I could get for less than $200? Or keep using the current drive? Or use the current 1TB SSD for the OS and Emby and pick up a M2 drive for the cache? Or vise versa? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted December 4, 2019 Share Posted December 4, 2019 I don't think you'll notice any performance boost, but I prefer using different drives for different functions. I use an M.2 for my transcode drive, so the OS drive doesn't get heavily used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbjtech 4218 Posted December 4, 2019 Share Posted December 4, 2019 (edited) It really depends on the drive you put in the M.2 slot. NVMe M.2 drives can be massively faster than SATA based SSD's or SATA based M.2's but it's all relative to how much performance you really need. For a transcoding drive, at the end of the day, it's a sequential write followed by a sequential read, and at video bitrates, even 4K even a slow 5400 rpm mechanical hard drive should not really have an issue. Multiple transcodes will probably give it a hard time but it won't choke. Personally, I've seen the greatest speed increase (to screens loading etc) when I use the M.2 as my emby cache/image folder - as that is where it is doing a large amount of random access reads and writes - I certainly would not want to waste that performance/drive life on a transcoding device - but every system is different. Edited December 4, 2019 by rbjtech Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1971camaroguy 23 Posted December 5, 2019 Author Share Posted December 5, 2019 thanks both of you, I like the idea of getting a NVMe M2 drive and using it solely for cach / images. Right now I have emby set to store images in media folders with all of my media scattered out on 10-12 spin drives. I feel like doing it this way would improve the image load times...right now I have a slight lag as I move through the library. I figured I could keep the 1TB SSD for the OS/Emby?Transcoding and the M2 for the cache/images, I wouldn't be doing any heavy transcoding as it's just primarily me using the server and with the nvidia shield it rarely has to transcode, if not at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 I just got one of these, today. Spare parts are nice to have. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07BN4NJ2J/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1971camaroguy 23 Posted December 5, 2019 Author Share Posted December 5, 2019 Thanks, I have been eyeballing that as well, not sure if I want to go 500gb or spend more for the 1tb. Right now I have all of my images and info in the media folders beside the files. But I am thinking about having it all stored in the cache location on either the same drive (SSD or NVME) as the OS and emby. Either way I do this I anticipate there will be better load times for the images in emby correct? I want it to be fluid and not the slight lag it has now as I scroll through the dashboard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sammy 735 Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 I was planning on using my 1Tb m.2 drive for the boot Drive and all the Emby data and transcode folders. Bad idea? Sent from my SM-G960U1 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightsout 144 Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 I was planning on using my 1Tb m.2 drive for the boot Drive and all the Emby data and transcode folders. Bad idea? Sent from my SM-G960U1 using Tapatalk Nothing wrong with that. If it has the space to do it all you should be good to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sammy 735 Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 On my just failed system I had Four SSD's.. 256Gb Boot Drive 240Gb Emby Data and Transcode Drive 128Gb Recorded TV Drive 240Gb MCEBuddy Archive Drive. MCE Buddy would put the recordings on a 4Tb Spinner HDD and store the archives on that separate drive for a week in case there was a big issue. I had a *.bat file run from the task scheduler every day to delete older files in that Archive Folder / Drive. I thinnk I can do all this on one drive on the m.2 PCI bus for increased speed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightsout 144 Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 On my just failed system I had Four SSD's.. 256Gb Boot Drive 240Gb Emby Data and Transcode Drive 128Gb Recorded TV Drive 240Gb MCEBuddy Archive Drive. MCE Buddy would put the recordings on a 4Tb Spinner HDD and store the archives on that separate drive for a week in case there was a big issue. I had a *.bat file run from the task scheduler every day to delete older files in that Archive Folder / Drive. I thinnk I can do all this on one drive on the m.2 PCI bus for increased speed. Yeah I would think you would be fine to do all of that on a single drive. Don't remember what you got but definitely go NVME if you can. There's some solid 1tb drives for $110-120. No need to spend Samsung money. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sammy 735 Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 Yeah I would think you would be fine to do all of that on a single drive. Don't remember what you got but definitely go NVME if you can. There's some solid 1tb drives for $110-120. No need to spend Samsung money.Newegg Cyber Monday intel 1Tb for $83. Now $125.. Intel 660p Series M.2 2280 1TB PCIe NVMe 3.0 x4 3D2, QLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) SSDPEKNW010T8X1 Sent from my SM-G960U1 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 No need to spend Samsung money. What kind of crazy talk is that!?!?! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightsout 144 Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 What kind of crazy talk is that!?!?! Oh man. I was totally going to add to that post "but Doofus will come along and say you should anyways." These are the hot drives. Right up there with Samsungs. Phison controller. https://hardforum.com/threads/hot-inland-1tb-nvme-premium-109-w-tax-microcenter.1978390/ Also sold on Amazon as a Sabrent Rocket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 Lol... It's like Bugsy said 'It's just dirty paper. I'll get more'. Dude was a little psycho, but it doesn't mean he was wrong lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightsout 144 Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 Lol... It's like Bugsy said 'It's just dirty paper. I'll get more'. Dude was a little psycho, but it doesn't mean he was wrong lol. I am a 90% of the performance for 50% of the price kind of guy, thats why I am currently using TCL and AMD Although Amazon currently have the Samsung Evo 1tb for $149, love to see these prices coming down. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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