Quote Originally Posted by N8YX View Post
Got my 4TB drive in the mail yesterday.

Put it in the system, added the last serial port connector and buttoned everything back up. As soon as I got it booted I created two drives of ~2TB each, moved the swap file and all the VMs onto one then set the OS to back itself up on the other.

VM startup is slightly slower as compared to running from the SSD but not objectionable by any means.

Installed KiCAD in both this VM and on the Win10 host. It's not as smooth when run by VM as it is "native" but perhaps a different (more resourced) VM config on the next host machine will fix that.
I did something similar here at work. I've got 7 TB of 10000 RPM RAID and 64 TB of NAS storage.

All the data shares reside on the NAS with WD RED data center drives. All the operating systems on the fast RAID.

At this point I can't even identify a bottleneck in our current use scenario :)