More RAM really make a difference in Emby performance ?

[chrisrobbins1970 82]

I have a Synology DS1520+ with 8gigs of RAM… I have a 16gig RAM stick that I bought to add more RAM.
Would adding more RAM ; for a total of 20GIGS make any “real” difference in the performance of EMBY?

[Luke 42077]

Hi, going from 16 to 20 might not be a massive difference. But every little bit can help, especially if you have other apps on the NAS running.

What can make a substantial difference though is installing an SSD cache drive into the Synology, if your model supports that.

[chrisrobbins1970 82]

I'd be going from 8gigs to 20gigs of RAM..i do have x2 1tb NVME SSD for read/write cache.

I have bought a 16gig RAM stick..

[Tremas 197]

Yes, what Luke said. It may depend on what else you are doing with your NAS besides emby. But for emby/server use, it mostly comes down to IOPS. Installing emby on an NVME drive or moving your cache and transcoding folders to an NVME will make a huge difference (it did for me). There are varying levels of complexity you can look at doing with a DS1520+, but adding an optional NVME cache is the easiest.

You may want to read through this thread (particularly Carlo's comments):

 

[chrisrobbins1970 82]

I have those for read/write cache..don't think I can use them for temporary cache path

[Luke 42077]

26 minutes ago, chrisrobbins1970 said:

I have those for read/write cache..don't think I can use them for temporary cache path

You wouldn't do that. Just the presence of the cache drive will improve the performance of the entire NAS.

[chrisrobbins1970 82]

@Lukeso what you're saying is that I have 2TB of cache drives that are not doing anything??

What I understand is that these are not able to be used as storage just read/write

[Luke 42077]

Just now, chrisrobbins1970 said:

@Lukeso what you're saying is that I have 2TB of cache drives that are not doing anything??

What I understand is that these are not able to be used as storage just read/write

No, didn’t say that. Synology handles it automatically. It will provide improvement almost across the board with all functions of the system.

[chrisrobbins1970 82]

ok..i know it's overkill..BUT the drives were on sale at the time...

so the temporary cache path is not needed for Emby?

[Luke 42077]

You can just leave it at default.

[chrisrobbins1970 82]

thank you