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I think I solved a major problem in the NAS industry

The problem is "write amplification" in NAS system...
cock of zohran mamdani
  09/10/25
how do you command when ssd is written to? how do u code it
VoteRepublican
  09/10/25
Disabling docker solves it. Unfortunately I have to run ONE ...
cock of zohran mamdani
  09/10/25
Also, never worry about drive speed in these things, holy sh...
cock of zohran mamdani
  09/10/25
You are a fucking retard
daniel gay luis
  09/10/25
Wow maybe you should actually get a j*b then those sort of s...
Talk to your kids about time dilation.
  09/10/25
I can make YouTube videos about this and get lots of views
cock of zohran mamdani
  09/10/25


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Date: September 10th, 2025 12:13 AM
Author: cock of zohran mamdani

The problem is "write amplification" in NAS systems that were designed to run entirely on hard drives. When running Docker they write tiny amounts of data to the SSD every 5-10 seconds. Normally these would go to hard drives that are always spinning, but over time these writes can add up and shorten the lifespan of a SSD.

My previous approach was to put shitty old SSDs in the cache pools so that I wouldn't care if they died, but then I realized a bunch of these are the old school ones that have a DRAM cache. The DRAM cache shouldn't write to the drive until it's full, and the smallest drive gives you 64mb. The chances of it ever filling up 64mb with these tiny writes is slim, because whatever the OS writes every 5 seconds probably overwrites whatever it wrote 5 seconds earlier.

And now I have proof:

https://i.imgur.com/AUxssNC.png

Two shitty old drives with DRAM caches report a 1:10 ratio of writes to reads. Previously it was 1:3-ish. The cache is usually a ratio of drive capacity, so a 512gb SSD has 128mb of cache, and it's hardly EVER touching that now.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771553&forum_id=2],#49249437)



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Date: September 10th, 2025 12:15 AM
Author: VoteRepublican (A true Chad!! where's your gf/wifew?)

how do you command when ssd is written to? how do u code it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771553&forum_id=2],#49249438)



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Date: September 10th, 2025 12:18 AM
Author: cock of zohran mamdani

Disabling docker solves it. Unfortunately I have to run ONE docker container on this NAS. Just one. I can't do anything about it. One is all it takes.

Also, this is only a problem in RAID arrays, and it's bigger problem in ZFS pools that BTRFS. It doesn't happen at all if you store the Docker image in XFS, but you can't have a proper RAID array with XFS.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771553&forum_id=2],#49249443)



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Date: September 10th, 2025 12:31 AM
Author: cock of zohran mamdani

Also, never worry about drive speed in these things, holy shit. Unless your entire home is kitted out with 10Gbe (you would know if you spent the money on this), you'll never see anything faster than hard drive speeds across your network, if that. Go ahead and use the shittiest, slowest, oldest, shittiest and slowest SSDs for this application. Holy shit if you paid money for pcie 4.0 anything. Go ahead and use the slowest RAM you got too. Don't enable XMP

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771553&forum_id=2],#49249477)



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Date: September 10th, 2025 3:02 AM
Author: daniel gay luis

You are a fucking retard

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771553&forum_id=2],#49249608)



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Date: September 10th, 2025 6:04 AM
Author: Talk to your kids about time dilation. (🧐)

Wow maybe you should actually get a j*b then those sort of skills are really in demand

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771553&forum_id=2],#49249680)



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Date: September 10th, 2025 10:43 AM
Author: cock of zohran mamdani

I can make YouTube videos about this and get lots of views

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5771553&forum_id=2],#49250063)