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High Speed File Server - Need Suggestions?

I am having trouble with read/write speed on my shared NFS drive. The drive is used as data store for a pipe line of applications which process huge amounts of data. There are 3 applications in the pipeline. The first application fetches the data and stores it in the NFS shared drive. The second app processes the data and stores the result in the same drive and so on. All our applications run on linux servers and NFS server is different from the servers from where we run our apps.I think the bottle neck is read/write speed of the NFS drive. Would purchasing a dedicated File server improve performance ?

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1. If you're experiencing a bottleneck because of drive speed then you might get better results using a dedicated fileserver with drives like WD Raptors in raid.