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Add comment on NAS setups to the FAQ
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### What disk should I run DuckDB on?

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The type of storage used by DuckDB has a [big performance impact]({% link docs/guides/performance/environment.md %}#disk) on read-write workloads.
To achieve optimal performance on these workloads, we recommend run DuckDB on SSD or NVMe disks.
In the cloud, instance-attached storage (with local SSD or NVMe disks) yields better performance but network-attached cloud disks such as [AWS EBS](https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/) also work.
Based on our experience, we **advise against running DuckDB workloads on on-premises network-attached storage (NAS).**
Such setups are often slow and result in spurious failures that are difficult to troubleshoot.

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### Is DuckDB an in-memory database?

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