I have seen significant improvement when virtual machine disks are on their own spindle/ssd. I would add an SSD and put the VM's on it. Mike On 12/26/2020 3:20 PM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > My workstation is currently equipped with a pair of Western Digital Red 1 TB > SATA disks in a software RAID 1 setup. > > Some stuff like working with virtual machines is a bit slow, so I'm thinking > about replacing the disks by SSD. > > I'm hesitating between three different setups: > > 1) Use a relatively small SSD (120 to 240 GB) to reinstall the system on it. > Keep the two SATA disks in a RAID 1 array and mount /home on it. > > 2) Use a larger SSD (500 GB to 1 TB), install everything (including /home) on > it. Keep the two SATA disks in a RAID 1 array and mount them on /data for storage. > > 3) Get rid of the disks and go full SSD, with a 1 TB disk. > > Any advice from the hardware gurus on this list? > > Cheers, > > Niki >