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Exactly what I presented - the relevant one

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In Reply to: RE: Just the facts, ma'am..... posted by AbeCollins on August 07, 2024 at 10:24:34

But do SSDs offer usable performance gains when streaming music from a NAS? No.

Perhaps in your situation. Once again, your straw man argument completely misses the point - what I observe is not about throughput.

It's about how quickly (how many operations per second) it takes to initially transfer data where the performance gain for random reads is a factor of 150!

Did you actually noticea a performance gain streaming from NAS when you switched from HDDs to SSDs?

In the manner I've described, yes. Once you queue an album or a playlist, however, the NAS reads and buffers the entirety in a couple of seconds and afterwards, streams out of memory anyway. Hint: it doesn't wait for real time playback of music to place in cache. ;)

What I find odd is your choice of the slowest type of RAID using parity when you have no need for the benefit - higher capacity. You could simply use a mirrored pair of your fours or if you simply like lots of spinning drives, configure the in RAID 10 for the highest performance. When I worked in supply chain, the corporate hardware guys recommended RAID 10 for that reason.

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