Synology M2D18 Performance Test 2 - SSD Volume WITH SSD Cache

Performance Test of the Synology M2D18 NVMe Cache Card https://nascompares.com/synology-m2d1...

If you have purchased a NAS for business or Enterprise use, then chances are that one of the most important factors in the speed of data throughout your business. We are always looking for ways to improve our hardware and in as it is all too often that the room for improvement is small. Sure we can upgrade our network to 10Gbe and remove the bottleneck of external network speeds, but upgrading the hardware of a NAS is strangely limited and a huge downgrade from that of a custom built PC. The reason for this is because of the strict hardware architecture that NAS involves. A NAS server will be designed to be energy efficient, quiet and make as smaller footprint on your environment as possible. This leaves little physical room for improvement inside the device and given that most NAS will not allow you to upgrade the CPU (as software is designed around its architecture), the most popular forms of upgrading your NAS are increasing memory and introducing solid-state drive cache. SSD cache results in providing much larger improvements on internal performance on your NAS server and it is with this in mind that we wish to perform numerous tests on the brand new Synology M2D18 SSD cache card. PCIe upgrades like these are designed to provide performance improvements to NAS that are populated with hard drives at the cost of a few hundred pounds and help you to avoid complete NAS and Media upgrades to SSD that will cost thousands. Ultimately we are testing the Synology M2D18 to discover 3 things:

What are the performance benefits of SSD cache in NAS with the M2D18 Synology PCIe card?
Can you use the SSD cache card in conjunction with an SSD volume for any benefits?
Is SSD cache preferable to a NAS fully populated with solid state drives?
So let's find out what SSD cache is and what the M2D18 card from Synology can do for your NAS.

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