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SSD for NAS
Has anyone attempted to use SSD drives in their NAS? I'm assumning its possible but most likely not? I'd love to see the performance numbers if someone managed to get it working. Unfortunatley, the...
For large file sequential reads and writes, the NAS is not limited by the disk speeds.
If you are doing a lot of non-contiguous I/O (database access, reading lots of small files, etc) you do start to become limited by the disk. For those use cases I think using SSDs would result in significant performance gains. Although as Chirpa says, the system software isn't designed with SSDs in mind, and there likely would be some issues.
Also, SSDs fail in different ways from traditional hard drives (though apparently reliability overall is similar). When they fail, all data on them is usually completely lost.
If you are doing a lot of non-contiguous I/O (database access, reading lots of small files, etc) you do start to become limited by the disk. For those use cases I think using SSDs would result in significant performance gains. Although as Chirpa says, the system software isn't designed with SSDs in mind, and there likely would be some issues.
Also, SSDs fail in different ways from traditional hard drives (though apparently reliability overall is similar). When they fail, all data on them is usually completely lost.
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