Good gaiming build but with NAS

ishdafish2_ · February 23, 2016

ive just watched the LTT video and want to make my gaming pc a nas aswell, for the family.

Can I split the ssd storage between myself and nas cache.

The WD red 4TB is for the NAS. The WD blue 1TB is for the games on the NAS

Thanks Ish

sambaranbanerjee8 · February 23, 2016

rather than building a nas and a gaming rig build a full pc with windows 10 and then put a raid card in it and the use any vm software such as oracal virtual box and put any software foe nas such as free nas and unraid, and put virtual drives on the raid drive and use a ssd for cash beat idea. for home use only i am talking

bobhays · February 24, 2016

I suggest trying to make a separate box. That way you don't have to keep your gaming pc on all the time and it's much easier to deal with hardware upgrades and software issues.

Jarsky · February 24, 2016

It wouldn't be a NAS, you're talking about sharing your drive with the network.

I'm not aware of any OS that allows you to use a partition of an SSD as a cache, all the ones ive tried need a physical disk.

With just a single drive, i'd just share the drive. There really isn't a need for an SSD cache if its just for sharing media - those Red NAS drives are capable of saturating a gigabit network all by themselves.