I'm sick and tired of my ~3TB of internal storage. I'm tired of constantly deleting and re-downloading things, and it's time to upgrade. I do a mix of things that need fast storage and slow storage. These are gaming, stablediffusion/AI (No idea if storing checkpoints benefit from fast storage), VR, and media.
My current drives are 2x 1tb samsung 970 nvmes. 1x 256gb sata. 1x 512gb sata. Those sata drives are old as sin too. My motherboard is an ASUS ROG Strix Z490-e, which has 2 m.2 slots at pci3.0, and 6 SATA ports. If it matters I have a 4090 and 10700k.
I would love at 8-16tb of fast storage, and 30tb of slow storage. I don't know if that's realistic. I also don't know if motherboards even come with more than 2 m.2 slots. I haven't kept up with PC parts in a long time.
If I'm storing 30tb+ of media, would it be best to store that elsewhere like a NAS?
Should I upgrade my motherboard to something that can utilize pci4.0 and get 2x 4tb m.2 drives?
Would it be better to leave my current NVME drives and get multiple SATA drives?
Money isn't exactly a concern but with all things tech there comes a point where you start doubling your investment for incremental gains, I want to stay out of that territory. Also I'm sure my 4090 is already bottlenecked by my 10700k so upgrading the motherboard and therefore CPU is something that I'll need to do eventually.
Whatever is best can someone suggest some specific drives for it?