My NAS wasn’t fast enough for my most-used files, so I came up with a better solution

I recently rebuilt my NAS around an Intel N100 motherboard. I also have a DAS and another NAS for storing my files. Despite having several storage options, I found that accessing my most frequently used files over the network wasn’t as fast as I wanted. Instead of upgrading everything or replacing my existing storage hardware, I started looking at how I could organize my files differently.