Thanks Dolbyman, your help is most beneficial. I have one more question. Toxic17 recommended that I use my NVME drives to create my 1st system pool raid1 to load app and make the system quicker.
So just to clarify. Is QTS the file system to use or is the QuTS Hero better?
"the TS-x73A can also use QuTS Hero which supports ZFS rather than using the QTS firmware"
When I 1st make the System Volume, do I create Static volume with the 2 x M2 Cards
Then I create another Static Volume with the 8 x 18TB hard drives.
Appreciate your comments