I’m going to be building a new PC based on the Gigabyte X570 Master. I keep delaying the build as I try to work things out.
One thing I’ve been trying to work out is where to store my email. I use Thunderbird on my current PC and the email is stored on a couple of mirrored hard disks. I’ve implemented a FreeNAS box to store files and don’t want to mirror the hard disks in the new PC as rebuilding takes ages.
As I will only have one free PCIe slot on the X570 and no free Sata ports, I have been thinking of buying a new card for the free PCIe slot.
I can’t decide whether I should buy a card to support some 2.5" SSD’s that I have lying around of whether I can get a card that will allow me to add some nvme drives.
Does anyone have any suggestions on what I should do/buy?
Also does anyone have any suggestions on the best way to backup Thunderbird email? Should I mirror some nvme/SSD drives or is there a better way?
At the moment I’m still using Pop3 but I’m thinking of fetching my email (from various servers) onto a new server and then accessing it from there using IMAP on all my devices. I’ve never done anything like that before so not sure of the best thing to do?