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==== Drive recommendation for OS: ====

We’re going to have two drives in RAID 1. '''''You can use more if you like – RAID 1 need not be two drives!''''' I like Micron SSDs; they have always had consistently lower failure rates than Samsung’s budget “EVO” line for me with regards to NVME devices. I’ve RMA’d the same 2 TB Samsung EVO 970 five times now… Five… Times. You can get two budget 4 TB SSDs for under $500 now – I recommend ''[https://www.crucial.com/ssd/p3/CT4000P3SSD8 these]''.

We are going to be using these SSDs for virtual machines that perform many tasks. Here are some of the storage-intensive ones:

* Self-hosted mail. Your inbox may be 50+ GB like mine.
* Complete phone backup of everything – can easily eclipse 2 terabytes. Mine is 1.4.
* FreePBX phone system – call recordings over time can go over 50 GB easily.

I suggest buying drives for your operating system disk that are considerably fast and have enough space to store all of this. With regards to security camera recordings, and the backup of your 40 terabytes of recipes stored as .mkv files – that, we’ll do on an array of hard drives. You don’t need to get SSDs.

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