Upgrading TS-251D Disks (Qmagie related issues)

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Hi all,

My TS-251D is configured with 2 2TB disk in RADI1. It works quite well in general, I’m not doing that much with it, but I’m having real issues when it’s about QuMagie. When I want to watch my photos the thumbnails takes ages to load, and I’m doing from the browser of my personal computer in my 1Gb local network at 1Gb. I have around 55k photos/videos.

So now I’m looking at alternatives on how to improve the QuMagie performace so I can work with my pictures and I’d like to move the qmagie “cache” to a faster disk (SSD).

From what I’ve read I can install a SSD but I need a QM2 card and, obviously, a SSD disk.

But then it is not clear to me what would be the next steps. If I go for “cache acceleration”, will the it take care of moving all apps (and its cache) to this faster disk? Or it simply caches frequent read/writes?

If this cache Accelariotion is not doing what I expect, do I have to manually move the cache of QuMagie to the new SSD and reconfigure the app?

Before buying the new HW I’d like to understand if my assumtions are correct and, also, if I’ll see a huge impact on the performance after the upgrade.

thanks in advance

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Your system volume needs to be on fast IO (cache will do nothing here)

Start your system from scratch (system volume on a RAID1). Then rebuild your storage from backups and have qmagie rebuild all

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Thanks for the answer. Ouch…
So new 2 SSD on RAID1 and then rebuilding the system and telling it to place the system volume in the SSD. Ok, thanks.

Let me ask for your opinion here, as I need to buy the card + SSD disks, do you think that this setup still makes sense for a TS-251D or better acquire a new device and use this for remote backup only.

thanks!

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I know QMagie can be a very resource hungry app, if you have the funds to get a new device do that.. maybe wait till after Computex and see if there is any NAS that would be worthwhile getting (and older models probably would become cheaper too, although with all that AI market skew.. you never know.

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thanks for the answer. Will give Immich a try in hte meantime…