DS920+ RAM/Cache upgrades - worth it?

[Oncle Julien]

Hello,

I recently purchased a DS920+ to replace my DS220+, as I wished to add more drives and disk space.

I use my Synology exclusively to stream films (4K) and tv (HD) to my television via Kodi over NFS running on an Android Shield (2019), and I'm wondering if adding SSD/NVME cache drives or RAM would enhance this experience. I'm not currently experiencing any problems, no stuttering or buffering, simply very slow to start music playback (which may be a Kodi) issue, but as this is a new device, I thought I would ask if either of these upgrades would impact video playback at all.

Thank you!

 

[Rusty]

RAM is always good for overall experience, but nvme will not boost your performance in this described scenario.

 

[Oncle Julien]

Thanks Rusty - my research had led me to believe that RAM will speed my experience in the GUI and cache will speed disk I/O for file movements, but not streaming - thanks for confirming!