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With gigbit internet I realized the HDD write speed is my limiting factor. It’s taking siginificantly longer to extract my compressed files than it takes to dow
by wil421 9y ago
With gigbit internet I realized the HDD write speed is my limiting factor. It’s taking siginificantly longer to extract my compressed files than it takes to download it.
Adding an ssd as a staging drive for downloads and using it for transcoding has given me a good boost.
- perfmode 9y agoWhy not just stage to a RAM disk?
- wil421 9y agoNot enough RAM at the moment my water cooler failed and I just replaced it. I want to try some of the Optane memory and my MOBO supports it. My other hobbies have been comsuming my spare cash.
- ben174 9y agoI just bought the Thunderbolt 3 Drobo, and realize it's completely pointless without SSDs. It advertises 40 Gbit speeds when using an active Thunderbolt 3 cable, but only gets about 200 MB/s with normal drives. I could probably get close to that with the USB drobo.
- Bud 9y agoYes. But you're totally future-proof now. And you can speed it up a ton if you throw in a single fast SSD as the cache disk. Then in 4-8 years, when the price/performance works for you, you can throw in all SSDs.
- ferongr 9y agoWouldn't the speed ultimately be limited by the CPU speed of the Drobo itself instead of the interface? Even hardware accelerated hashing has limits.