Boost your Synology NAS efficiency with SSD caching. Explore its benefits, hardware requirements, and practical setup tips in this full guide ...

SSD cache is the means of using solid-state drives for storing frequently accessed data on Synology NAS to improve overall system performance. This guide will show you how to set it all up.

Add SSD cache for up to 20 times faster I/O response without using front drive bays. You can add 10 more drives with two Synology DX517 to expand storage capacity.

Today we will use a Synology DS1819+ with a special dual M.2 2280 add-in card with two NVMe SSDs used as a read and write cache. We use Intel's 118GB Optane SSD and Samsung's 1TB 960 Pro flash ...

Put simply, SSD caching uses flash storage as cache memory to store frequently accessed data. Whenever data from the primary ...

Synology Inc. has announced two additions to its enterprise-class M.2 NVMe solid-state drive line for SSD caching, and its latest generation 10/25GbE network cards to drive forward storage and ...

Adding Encryption, we see performance drop to 115 MB/s read with no change to write performance. Offsetting the Encryption, we add NVMe cache and performance returns to 116 MB/s read and write.

The Synology SSD cache doesn't work exactly how I first thought (needs 2 SSDs to enable write caching) so I could run 2x256GB SSDs to enable that if needs be.

The DS423+ does have a trick up its sleeve in the shape of two NVMe SSD slots. Drives in these can be configured as a cache for hard disk volumes, used to create a flash storage pool, or split ...