10-10-2025, 04:11 PM
Thanks for the kind words and for watching the channel — glad to hear the videos have been helping. The TS-464 is still an excellent NAS despite the newer models arriving, so you’ve made a solid choice.
For your workload (photo/video storage, Plex, light editing), upgrading RAM to 16GB will make a bigger difference than NVMe caching. Caching mainly helps with lots of small file reads/writes or multi-user access, not large media files like photos and videos.
If you’re mostly working with big files, you’ll see little benefit from two 500GB NVMe drives for cache. Instead, you could use one NVMe as an SSD volume for active projects and keep your HDD array for bulk storage and backups.
For your workload (photo/video storage, Plex, light editing), upgrading RAM to 16GB will make a bigger difference than NVMe caching. Caching mainly helps with lots of small file reads/writes or multi-user access, not large media files like photos and videos.
If you’re mostly working with big files, you’ll see little benefit from two 500GB NVMe drives for cache. Instead, you could use one NVMe as an SSD volume for active projects and keep your HDD array for bulk storage and backups.