Also, I should add that I’ve now moved back from running on my 918+ to running ROCK on an i5 NUC. The performance was “fine” but search results were slow, and in particular predictive search (the suggested answers that appear below the search box before you hit ENTER) were stuttering and filling in in a way that was visibly distracting. All smooth and peppy on the NUC again.
It was a good experiment, served me well, but happy to be back on a proper dedicated reasonably powered NUC. The 918+ turned out to be underpowered (as many have suggested) and I’m not going to upgrade a NAS to get processing power. It’s a consumer file device that does some other things well… but not this type of workload with lots of data dependency and need for low latency. Someone more technically competent than I can opine on why exactly. But I’m glad I went back to a “real” (dedicated) core machine.