FancyCache+Intel SRT on NAS...
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 11:30 pm
Hi,
Rather than buying an expensive dedicated NAS (most for backing up 3 other PCs, and serving HD video to my smart TV), I have build a "small" PC that would do all that for half the price.
So this homemade NAS is made with :
-Windows Server 2012 Datacenter
-iNTEL I3-3220
-Asrock Z77 Extreme4-M
-16 Gb Gskill DDR3 PC14900
-2 WD red 2TB in RAID 1 + 1 SSD used as caching drive with Intel SRT
This setup deliver arround 250MB/s read, BUT an average 90MB/s in write operations because I have choosed the safer SRT acceleration mode, but also because SRT won't cache such large data file transferts.
My gaol is to max out the write to this NAS for backups ( from 20GB to 100GB) comming from other PCs using a GB LAN (I have tested it and it deliver between 85MB/s to 115MB/s).
Do you think that FancyCache could help if I give it 12GB of my RAM for write caching only?
Could it makes some conflicts as it would be used at the same time as Intel SRT?
If someone could help...
Rather than buying an expensive dedicated NAS (most for backing up 3 other PCs, and serving HD video to my smart TV), I have build a "small" PC that would do all that for half the price.
So this homemade NAS is made with :
-Windows Server 2012 Datacenter
-iNTEL I3-3220
-Asrock Z77 Extreme4-M
-16 Gb Gskill DDR3 PC14900
-2 WD red 2TB in RAID 1 + 1 SSD used as caching drive with Intel SRT
This setup deliver arround 250MB/s read, BUT an average 90MB/s in write operations because I have choosed the safer SRT acceleration mode, but also because SRT won't cache such large data file transferts.
My gaol is to max out the write to this NAS for backups ( from 20GB to 100GB) comming from other PCs using a GB LAN (I have tested it and it deliver between 85MB/s to 115MB/s).
Do you think that FancyCache could help if I give it 12GB of my RAM for write caching only?
Could it makes some conflicts as it would be used at the same time as Intel SRT?
If someone could help...