I'm building my first orchestral template, but I feel like my current system is not going to be able to handle it.
My current setup is a Mac Studio with M1 Max cpu and 32GB of RAM. All of my sample libraries are currently on a Synology DS 1821+ NAS, connected with a 10Gbit connection. The drives in NAS are Seagate Exos drives. It is configured as SHR with 1 drive failure tolerance.
Before jumping to a new system, I'm curious if any of the following would improve performance:
Put the samples on a external SSD like a Samsung T7 (with around 1000MB/s read-write).
Put 32GB of RAM in the NAS. Would this even work at all? Would the NAS understand to load the libraries into the RAM of the NAS?
Buy something like a OWC Express 1M2 + Samsung 990 Pro 4TB to get higher read/write speeds over TB4 connection on the back of the Mac Studio.
Curious what you guys would opt for in this case!