Hard drive setup for hosting multiple VMs?

[baddubbin]

@baddubbin I speak from experience here. I've run a pair of 1tb EVO 850 SSD's on my 24/7 home server with around 40+ active low use VM's and I'm getting around a percent of wear-out per 6 months (2% a year). I run every VM you've listed on mine but do a couple tricks to help with trim as mentioned earlier.

-over provision. I set the OP to 20%
-limit the torrent client cache drive to a ram drive to help with thrashing.
-If you notice a slow-down, backup, do a secure wipe and restore. Will perform as new.

lmk if you have any other questions!

What torrent client do you use?

I setup deluge and the cache settings seem pretty limited. No apparent way to point caching to a specific location.

 

[Monoman]

Rtorrent with the rutorrent web frontend