Howdy,
First time poster and FN Newb. Love it, learning, hope I can contribute to the forum at some point.
I've got a little AMD E350IA board & 8GB of RAM powering my NAS. Running 8.0.4 from a 4GB USB 2.0 flash drive. I'm looking for info on performance boosts by using an SSD or a USB 3.0 flash drive for cache. I've read that SSD is the way to go but since my board supports USB 3.0 I thought I would see if anyone has attempted it. Also, with using either for cache what is the ceiling for size? Does it incrementally help with performance the larger your drive gets? Or is there a max? I've got a 60GB Sata III on the way but plan to build a few more of these and would like to push the hardware to perform.
Thanks!
~NC
First time poster and FN Newb. Love it, learning, hope I can contribute to the forum at some point.
I've got a little AMD E350IA board & 8GB of RAM powering my NAS. Running 8.0.4 from a 4GB USB 2.0 flash drive. I'm looking for info on performance boosts by using an SSD or a USB 3.0 flash drive for cache. I've read that SSD is the way to go but since my board supports USB 3.0 I thought I would see if anyone has attempted it. Also, with using either for cache what is the ceiling for size? Does it incrementally help with performance the larger your drive gets? Or is there a max? I've got a 60GB Sata III on the way but plan to build a few more of these and would like to push the hardware to perform.
Thanks!
~NC