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Stadin6
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I just had a thought on using a RAMdisk in a NAS. Would i be possible?

 

I am thinking of 128GB+ for the RAMdisk and a HDD for a copy of the RAMdisk.

 

How fast would the network need to be for this to be useful? 10Gb ethernet?

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I just had a thought on using a RAMdisk in a NAS. Would i be possible?

 

I am thinking of 128GB+ for the RAMdisk and a HDD for a copy of the RAMdisk.

 

How fast would the network need to be for this to be useful? 10Gb ethernet?

to small for NAS use, and would need like 20gb ethernet. why not just put said ram in said computer?

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to small for NAS use, and would need like 20gb ethernet. why not just put said ram in said computer

dunno, it was just a thought.

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I just had a thought on using a RAMdisk in a NAS. Would i be possible?

 

I am thinking of 128GB+ for the RAMdisk and a HDD for a copy of the RAMdisk.

 

How fast would the network need to be for this to be useful? 10Gb ethernet?

 

Hey there Stadin6,
 
RAM disks work at around 10GB/s so you would need a really fast network bandwidth in order not to bottleneck the setup. Theoretically it is possible as long as you can run a software that manages the RAMdisk configuration on the NAS itself. 
What do you need the extra speed for? I doubt that there will be anything along the connection between the NAS and the other devices that's not bottlenecking the performance of the RAMdisk.
 
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