NVMe vs SSD?

[SuperMiguel]

Motherboard supports MVMe drive, any reason to not to use it?

Only one i can think off, is that with SSD i can have multiple drives and set them up in a raid 1 configuration instead of a single NVMe drive which are way faster (but not sure if OPNsense cares much about this)

[cookiemonster]

No particular reason not to use it. It is faster yes but most of the disk writes are for logs and SSDs are fast enough. Use sensible log rotation to prevent unnecessary wear but that applies to both types.

[tiermutter]

Use sensible log rotation

What exactly do you mean?
I already reduced logging to reduce wearing of SSD , but it sounds like I can do more than that?!

[cookiemonster]

Different uses, different needs. Sensible to me might not be for you but what I have is:
System > Settings > Logging:
field is clear, all boxes unticked. Leaves me with 30 days by default. I've not seen the need to reduce it.

On my firewall rules, I only enable logging for them when I need to troubleshoot. There is a very minimal amount of them that have logging enabled.

[tiermutter]

OK, thats the way I go too.

[RamSense]

thanks for the tip @cookiemonster.