Hi fellow homelabbers,

I need your guidance. Recently did a lot back and forth on the German variant to Craigslist and ended up with two RX2530 M2s and one RX2540M1.

Found out that one Raidcontroller wasn’t working anymore from the M2s so put everything into one and migrated my vms onto it. Right now the proxmox install is on a single Samsung 850 SSD and inside are 2 old SSDs as one virtual device and 2 new ones ( Crucial 500GB) as the second virtual device. I’m running homeassistant, the arrs, gitlab, Mattermost, jellyfin etc.

From the 2540 there are 9x 800GB SAS Disk available. It came as RAID6 preconfigured and the speed was massive. At least that feels like it. However the noise of the 2540 keeps me away from wanting it running 24/7. you can easily hear it through the closed door and I’m getting a bit crazy about that. Sad part here: I have an ARC310 with passthrough working with jellyfin but I will not make use of it due to the noise.

There is my old TX120 S3 which also has 2x Crucial 500GB SSD and 2x 300 GB SAS Drives I could use.

The single RX2530 M2 has two v4 xeons with 10C/20T each. So it will satisfy whatever I need to run for eternity and together with parts from the 2540 it will have 192GB of Memory.

Which kind of storage layout would you shoot for in the M2. Given there are 10 slots available and my media and data is on the synology NAS?

Cheers