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?
Any type of SSD will be leagues ahead of any type of HDD in terms of speed. I’m guessing you’ll be fine with a NAS SSD, but if you go the NVME route, just make sure that your network connection to the NAS doesn’t become a bottleneck.
@Steeltooth493 Should be little if any difference when comparing SSD to SSD or NVMe to NVMe. 4KiB access patterns are fairly similar across generations of NVMe drives.
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.
