When used for rewrite-heavy workloads, btrfs generally is very slow if used with spinning disks. Is synology using a customized btrfs build which overcome that limitation, or is this setup really only aimed to fileserver workloads? Or are SSD an integral (almost mandatory) part of the setup?
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jamyryals - Thursday, June 11, 2015 - link
Awesome to see btrfs! I hope it makes it down to products for consumers to use in a reasonable time frame.shodanshok - Friday, June 12, 2015 - link
When used for rewrite-heavy workloads, btrfs generally is very slow if used with spinning disks. Is synology using a customized btrfs build which overcome that limitation, or is this setup really only aimed to fileserver workloads? Or are SSD an integral (almost mandatory) part of the setup?Kutark - Thursday, June 18, 2015 - link
I know this is obviously for businesses, but that is some serious $$$edward1987 - Monday, February 22, 2016 - link
I would just go SPAN.COM and use their free setup and advice.