Since I’m putting huge loads on my MacStudios, I wanted to get the read/write load away from the internal SSDs and get a bit more redundancy in case an SSD fails.

All my containers running in Podman are now placed onto a SSD RAID1 on two Western Digital SN850X 8TB NVMe m.2 SSDs which I placed into an Anyoyo dual NVMe fan Thunderbolt-4 casing.

I’m still not sure if I should put all LLM model caching directories onto this RAID1 and export it from there, or put it on the main NAS and mount it from there via 10GB/s. Also MacStudio/Link via 80GB/s TB5 would be an option, but currently I don’t wont ip forwarding there…