JackoUK 54 Posted March 7, 2018 Share Posted March 7, 2018 As you've discovered the bandwidth of a single hard disk and 1GbE are closely matched at around 120MBs... ... so if you have a high bandwidth network you need a high bandwidth storage system to take advantage of the former. Writing data you are currently using on an SSD to long-term storage will be fine with a cache disk on the receiving end ... ... but what about when you want to read a file at random i.e. not a recent file in cache. No problem - you are probably only streaming a piece of music or video ... ... the problem comes when you need to access huge amounts of data (e.g. video editing) or you are performing a wholesale move (e.g. a disk reorganisation). Now the whole storage subsystem has to be fast. You might be interested in this reference from another thread on 10G networking. http://www.cinevate.com/dev/confessions-of-a-10-gbe-network-newbie-part-1-basics/ While 10GbE switching is still expensive ... a home user might enter the fray by simply networking 2 machines together with a direct Cat6 cable connection. Link to post Share on other sites
Ikon-TNG 15 Posted March 7, 2018 Author Share Posted March 7, 2018 Yeah, I did figure out that a cache SSD wasn't going to do much for reading data from the DrivePool pool(s). In those situations I don't really see any other alternative to lots & lots of SSDs. Pricey, but what can you do? Link to post Share on other sites
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