(Why) would it be "bad practice" to separate CPU and storage to separate devices? (lemmy.world)

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TLDR: I am running some Docker containers on a homelab server, and the containers' volumes are mapped to NFS shares on my NAS. Is that bad performance?

I have a Linux PC that acts as my homelab server, and a Synology NAS.
The server is fast but has 100GB SSD.
The NAS is slow(er) but has oodles of storage.
Both devices are wired to their own little gigabit switch, using priority ports.

Of course it's slower to run off HDD drives compared to SSD, but I do not have a large SSD. The question is: (why) would it be "bad practice" to separate CPU and storage this way? Isn't that pretty much what a data center also does?

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[-] lordnikon@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago

doesn't Synology NAS support SAN volumes out of the box? Then you just setup iscsi on the Linux system.

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