Even if you bump your network to 25 or 40 Gb/s bear in mind that there is still overhead in file sharing. Block device exporting should be faster, but that's essentially single-client only. You'll probably want either a motherboard which can do bifurcation or a multi-ssd carrier card with a built in PCIE switch (~$300). These days its tricky to get non-server boards with enough PCIE slots to do both the x16 PCIE card (4 NVME cards) and a very fast NIC (>10G) - you're probably looking at PCIE gen 3 if you want reasonable prices. Beware motherboards advertising x16 slots but with "x8 mode" or "x4 mode"
Demand on setup. CentOS with ZFS, NVME Cache with RAM Cache make a huge performance boost in large HDD arrays und heavy load. In combination with iSCSI and Ethernet Offloading in a SAN scenario. Also workload with big chunks like video editing. But i talk about 10gbit NIC, 16gbit FC or more!! For normal endusers or small homelab users ... i think other topics make more sense. My biggest DYI setup was 16*8TB RAID6, 2*WD1500 2TB, 512GB Ram, connected via 2*10gb NIC to Backbone switch. This beast get the work done. But its insane.
Nice DIY setup dude. Most people don't have that type of resources or cash so I get requests for the smaller older boxes and to just have some fun maxing a NAS out every way possible include running VM in teh NAS-OS as a plug-in. Keep having fun!
@@leadiususa7394 If you wana Play with this Kind of stuff. HP Microserver G8 is a good Base and ultra cheap. 4 HDD's one fast SATA SSD and a cheap dual Port Fiberchannel Card are a good start. This was May First Setup at Home to start with CentOS and SCSI Target Mode with RAM and SSD Cache.
Looking at this server, it is used as application server. And in that case, the NVMe SSDs make sense because of the higher IOPs. If not, please explain me the use case for a dual socket NAS with 2.5gbit, that only serves files. That just does not make any sense. Apart from all that, my past 3 NAS had the option for PCIe cards.
It depends on the OS of the NAS. If you don't have PCIe card slots but you can increase the RAM you can have a small Docker that run internal on the RAM and NVMe locally. using two 1 BG NICs in a ALB / teaming mode will give you about 1.5 GB bandwidth but that is about it. That is not a bad setup for a lot of simple VM services you can run,,, Like I said, there is more to a NAS then it's upload bandwidth, The key thing is to have some fun doing thsi stuff.
I'll start by saying that I am not whiz at computer hardware and networking... but is the point of the video to let people know that you can only be as fast as your weakest link. And if your weakest link is the incoming pipe then doing any improvements after that point is going to be useless if you're trying to achieve a change in speed. Again, I reiterate, you are always limited by your weakest link so fix that first and move down the line to "unblock" the bottleneck. Thoughts?
I wouldn't say a waste. First a old NAS may be the only thing some one has to do testing, You can test with it... You miss the point of trying something out side the norm. How else would you find that you can run a really fast internal NAS driven OS using plug-ins like VM platform because of the added speed of the NVME resources. It is not all about the bandwidth but also can you do inside the box.
according the title and that is around for two days you suffered a stroke? " Why adding NVVME storage added my to NAS doesn't give you the speed you really wanted and why " dickslectic much?
Oh and I am just find by the way, no strokes, I promise. /:> Teh mission was to try to do this and what would come from i for those unlike yourself that have money to do better stuff. That is part of the fun after all.
i dont buy, over priced nas, i just take my previous high end pc, and throw a HBA in the pcie X16 v 4.0 gpu slot, load it with drives and throw in a 25gbe or more nic and some nvme for cache, and add Primo Cache. . then your in control of it all. upgrade when you upgrade your next gaming or production rig. i just use windows pro, your just storing stuff, you want fast access to. just a glorified windows server. with your used parts. NAS Proprietary under powered BS.
Sweet that you can do that! This video was requested so I did fro those that have those very under powered NAS to play with... Low powered devices have there value to you know. Thanks for the input and keep having fun!
