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DSM on a Single SSD?
(lemmy.world)
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Thank you for this. That's helpful to know that if the SSD fails, the NAS wouldn't stop. More interested in trying this out now 🤞
You’re welcome.
I’m not sure if you’ll get a speed benefit or not since there is no way to prioritize the SSD.
My hope is that if I initialize NAS with just the SSD first, it'd have the smallest drive number, so DSM would just start off that. And maybe get some more performance if other apps/containers also ran off the SSD.
In my experience restart are infrequent. DSM runs plenty fast.
When I have a container that performs frequent small read/writes, i.e. lemmy and pictrs, I put those directories on a USB connected SSD. That greatly increased the performance of the containers I moved to that solution.
My other biggest performance boost was caching my main volume with two NVME SSDs.