To enhance the performance of an existing volume and improve I/O operations, you can add one or more high-performance disks such as SSDs to unload write (log) or read (cache) operations, or both. You can easily remove write and read disks from a volume. For write and read operations, you would not need to select disks with very large storage capacities.
You can attach both write and read disks to a volume:
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Write boost. Assign one or more separate write disks to improve the write performance of the array. NETGEAR recommends that you use SSDs that are optimized for writing.
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Read boost. Assign one or more separate cache disks to accelerate read operations in the array. NETGEAR recommends that you use SSDs that are optimized for reading.
Note: For more information about performance, see the white paper Performance Considerations for Configuring the ReadyDATA that is available from the ReadyDATA website at www.netgear.com/readydata.
For more information on configuring write and read disks to a volume, see the following support articles:
Last Updated:07/07/2025
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