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Understanding metadata tiers and x-raid for RN 422 with EDA-500
I am relatively new to the world of NAS. I have a 2 bay RN 422 with an EDA-500 connected via e-sata. The EDA-500 is primarily used to make my large library of movies available to my family. I would like to set up the EDA-500 as one x-raid volume, with two 8 TB WD Red Hdd's. My question: Is there any benefit to adding one or two SSD's to the EDA-500 in an attempt to create a metadata tier to improve performance? Thank you in advance for considering this question.
Metadata tiering is only available for Flex-RAID volumes.
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I don't think you'll see any performance gain during movie playback (or when copying new movies to the NAS).
You could see some gain in browsing folders that have lots of files in them with SMB. Something like Plex or ReadyDLNA might see some speed up in scanning the library.
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