[paul_g]

As an engineer who architects high-performance NAS solutions for large companies, the first thing I always talk about is IOPS.

Number one statement I always here is, "We're not concerned about performance, just price and storage capacity." They opt for 7200 RPM NLSAS drives and with a max performance (on a good day) at about 13K IOPS, and try to drive 30K IOPS and wonder why their applications are tipping over.

It's a matter of physics. You can not put 10 pounds of crap in a 5 pound bag. Read this: https://community.broadcom.com/syman...brarydocuments



I personally would stay the heck away from spinning media. Ten years ago we didn't have much choice unless we wanted to pay an arm and a leg. And as home users we were bound by bus speeds.

My suggestion is to look into a NVME Ram/SSD. Pricing these days is dirt cheap. You'll obviously have to scope out the carrier box for it, but there are companies that make them. A quick google search yielded me a Samsung 990 1TiB NVME SSD for $139...

A 5200 RPM drive is roughly 50 IOPS = 3.x mbps
The Samsung 980 is roughly 17K IOPS = 3200 mbps

Your bottleneck is your audio disk you are trying to write too. Reads will also kill your performance as well.