09-28-2022, 09:39 AM
You always need to think about the slowest link in the chain. The hard drive speed is around 200MB/s. RAID1 will theoretically double tie read speeds up to 400MB/s, but write speeds will stay the same. Having 3 drives in RAID5/SHR1 would also increase your write speeds.
Having an SSD instead of HDD will significantly improve overall data transfer and access speeds. So often people get Qnap TS-464 series models with NVMe inside for live projects (volume on its own and not cache) and HDD RAID for finished projects where speed is not that important. People with no NVme cache option often use a spare bay on the NAS for SATA SSD which helps a lot too. You can have several volumes/pools.
Then we move on to the subject of LAN. The speed of 2.5GbE LAN is around 200MB/s. Connecting both LAN ports to the switch will allow two people to have full 2.5GbE bandwidth. This might be fast enough for CAD/Sketchup files. Video editors would install a 10gbe card (even multiple ports).
Increasing RAM size will not improve the overall speed. NVME caching will improve repetitious data transfer speeds. But nothing compares with actual NVMe storage volume.
I hope this helps.
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Having an SSD instead of HDD will significantly improve overall data transfer and access speeds. So often people get Qnap TS-464 series models with NVMe inside for live projects (volume on its own and not cache) and HDD RAID for finished projects where speed is not that important. People with no NVme cache option often use a spare bay on the NAS for SATA SSD which helps a lot too. You can have several volumes/pools.
Then we move on to the subject of LAN. The speed of 2.5GbE LAN is around 200MB/s. Connecting both LAN ports to the switch will allow two people to have full 2.5GbE bandwidth. This might be fast enough for CAD/Sketchup files. Video editors would install a 10gbe card (even multiple ports).
Increasing RAM size will not improve the overall speed. NVME caching will improve repetitious data transfer speeds. But nothing compares with actual NVMe storage volume.
I hope this helps.
Thank you for your support, this keeps going.