PBS on Synology NAS: MinIO vs NFS

[Etienne Charlier]

Dear,

My current setup is a PBS VM running on my DS1621+ ( thanks to virtual machine manager on DSM)
Datastore is hosted on the NAS and connected to the VM via NFS.

I've yet to upgrade to PBS 4.0 but I'm wondering:
Instead of NFS bewteen VM and "native" NAS would it be more performant to install an S3 server ( MiniIO or Garage) in a Docker container on the NAS and use the new feature of PBS to store the datastore on S3 bucket ?

Does anyone have tried ?

Thanks in advance

 

[MarkusKo]

I tried PBS 4 Beta with a QNAP NAS QObject Storage and it works but don't think you will get better performance, after all it's just an additional abstraction layer on top of the already existing storage layer of the NAS.

The good thing about the S3 data storage is you don't have to mess with manually adding a not officially supported NFS share via cli on your PBS. PBS can be a relatively small VM (but needs additional space for a local cache directory) without any other dependencies, except the remote S3 data store of course.