System SSD size

60GB for 30€ inkl. P&P in my NAS

Zitat von uvo

For my new NAS I am thinking about getting an SSD and I'm not sure, if I should buy a 32GB or 64GB SSD.

At the moment my system drive just uses 2.5GB, but who knows, what I'm gonna do in the near future?

How much diskspace need your NASes?

I use 16GB 2.5 inch SATA SSDs which are very inexpensive when bought used on ebay.

I am currently using only 6.7GB on an almost three year old upgraded to OMV 3.x install. I have installed quite a few plugins, and additional other non-OMV packages along the way and do not see myself running out of room.

I use 2 32GB SSDs in an BTRFS Mirror

Zitat von ryecoaaron

If you aren't using plex or docker, 8gb is more than enough in most cases. If you are using plex and/or docker, there is no right answer. It would depend on how large your media collection is and/or how many docker images you have pulled down.

Is your comment about plex based on having its database volume folder on the rootfs? If so, not sure why anyone would want to do that.

Where is the database stored by default when the plugin is first installed, and the user does not make a choice for the database location?

I know that the rootfs drive can not be selected in the plugin, but IIRC that is the default setting (in /var), and unless the user changes it away from there, that's what they get.

(I understand that plex will not even start without a defined location for the database, so it has to be placed somewhere, and not knowing anything else at the outset, in /var on the rootfs is not unreasonable. But perhaps the potential consequences of that choice might/should be pointed out somewhere?)