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Is it possible to play games off of a NAS with 2Gbit connection? Will I experience any difficulties with it?

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What speed do you get transferring files?

If the hard drive is the bottleneck and not the network, yeah it'll work

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Is it possible to play games off of a NAS with 2Gbit connection? Will I experience any difficulties with it?

 

Are you wired or wirelessly connected?

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Are you wired or wirelessly connected?

Wired

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What speed do you get transferring files?

If the hard drive is the bottleneck and not the network, yeah it'll work

I don't have it setup yet :P but the HDDs are Seagate Barracudas 2TB drives. 3 of them in Raid 0 will that be fast?

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Is it possible to play games off of a NAS with 2Gbit connection? Will I experience any difficulties with it?

steam in home streaming works fine on 100mbps connection and on gigabit so im sure you will be fine.

 

 

 

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steam in home streaming works fine on 100mbps connection and on gigabit so im sure you will be fine.

Will that work if the NAS has no Internet Connection?

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Will that work if the NAS has no Internet Connection?

yes and no.

 

 

 

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Will that work if the NAS has no Internet Connection?

Yes because it's over the internal network.

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Yes because it's over the internal network.

but online gameplay?

 

 

 

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I don't have it setup yet :P but the HDDs are Seagate Barracudas 2TB drives. 3 of them in Raid 0 will that be fast?

Even not in raid you'd be fine.

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but online gameplay?

The streaming function is still available. That's what I'm focusing on.

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but online gameplay?

The drive doesn't have to be on the internet - that's impossible. The computer actually playing the game has to be on the internet. The only issue would be slow load times on certain games. You'll PROBABLY be fine.
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The drive doesn't have to be on the internet - that's impossible. The computer actually playing the game has to be on the internet. The only issue would be slow load times on certain games. You'll PROBABLY be fine.

Well how about GTA5? Will the load times be noticeably longer?

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Think of the Nas as a HUGE Flash Drive.

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Well how about GTA5? Will the load times be noticeably longer?

Yes, that is a big game and I imagine the network will be pinned.

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Yes, that is a big game and I imagine the network will be pinned.

 

Any way of helping that?

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And last question.. How would I get Steam In Home Streaming to work on my NAS? I am planning to install Windows Server 2012 R2 on the server since I will be able to use RDC to Remote in and fix stuff..

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Any way of helping that?

That's one of the few games that I would leave on an internal HDD or preferrably, SSD. What is your transfer rate? Your actual transfer rate.

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That's one of the few games that I would leave on an internal HDD or preferrably, SSD. What is your transfer rate? Your actual transfer rate.

 

I don't have it setup yet so I don't know.. What could I expect with 3 Seagate Barracuda 2TB HDDs at 7200RPM in Raid 0? Also would there be anyway for me to buy a 64GB SSD and use that as a Cache to speed up transfers??

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I don't have it setup yet so I don't know.. What could I expect with 3 Seagate Barracuda 2TB HDDs at 7200RPM in Raid 0? Also would there be anyway for me to buy a 64GB SSD and use that as a Cache to speed up transfers??

It all depends on your network. RAID 0 wouldn't be very reliable - if one of those drives fails, you're done. Also, I'm fairly certain that you could use an SSD as cache.

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It all depends on your network. RAID 0 wouldn't be very reliable - if one of those drives fails, you're done. Also, I'm fairly certain that you could use an SSD as cache.

 

The network will be a dedicated network with 2 1Gbit connections from the NAS to my computer and a Gbit connection out to the rest of my network for movie streaming and what not

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The network will be a dedicated network with 2 1Gbit connections from the NAS to my computer and a Gbit connection out to the rest of my network for movie streaming and what not

And what hardware do you plan to actually use? Have you thought about the switch you want to use?

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I have done this and continue to do this. Most of my games are on my NAS, and running them at 150-200MB/s is plenty fast. I only put the important things on my SSD. Like Skyrim.

 

 

It all depends on your network. RAID 0 wouldn't be very reliable - if one of those drives fails, you're done. Also, I'm fairly certain that you could use an SSD as cache.

 

You can. I use a 250GB EVO as cache for my NAS.


 

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And what hardware do you plan to actually use? Have you thought about the switch you want to use?

 

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