High disk load, optimalizing

[Alexey]

It should work too. As far as I know, Synology has a feature to add SSD as a cache layer.

Anyone experience with Synology SSD Cache? Does it bring anything here?

In my experience it actually helps quite a bit. Every transfer requires a few additional small writes to the sqlite databases as well as writing relatively small pieces to disk. All of that can be much faster with an SSD cache. You should see some improvements. That said, it’s definitely not worth it to buy an SSD cache for Storj alone. Btw, I’m not sure which model you have, but I’m fairly certain you didn’t have to turn off the node or the Synology to add drives and then add the SSD cache. Al…