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Haha I actually just did the same thing yesterday! I run RKE2 in a seagate hdd partition and was tolerating the noise. The seagate hdd was louder than any previous hdd I had, and yesterday I couldn't stand it anymore and move the data into a new ssd partition, then remount it in /var/lib/rancher.
Such bliss! Should've done it right from the start.
Make sure your drive firmware is updated. A surprising amount of SSDs have firmware bugs that cause premature wearout.
Personally, if I could fit the cache in RAM, I'd just do that.
I considered it but RAM is very limited on the NAS and the cluster nodes, it's my primary bottleneck. it would also be more volitile. the two SSDs are RAID 1 redundant, just like the underlying HDDs, in addition to the built in power loss protection on the drives. RAM discs are great if you can spare them and have a UPS though.