How well do NAS SSDs or NAS NVME drives run AAA PC games these days? I have a NAS that’s a few years old with regular NAS hard drives and I usually get lag if I try to play more intensive games from them. Has the technology improved?

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  • @MangoPenguin
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    1 year ago

    I doubt there is any difference between a “NAS” SSD and a normal SSD other than the label they slap on it for marketing. Even a basic SATA SSD is going to be like 200-300x higher IOPS compared to a spinning HDD.

    1GbE networking on a NAS will of course limit the transfer speed of an SSD for sequential data, but for random data it probably won’t much, and so games should work reasonable well.

    But I always recommend a local SSD instead for running games/programs from.