NAS or SAN advice

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I would recommend something with NVMe caching slots such as DS923+. Read-write cache will ensure your repetitious data requests will be server by SSD and not HDD volume. This speeds things up significantly. Or even better, create a volume from NVMe.
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I hope this helps.