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I assumed it was 10G because of the color of the switch's Etherlighting, but could have just been for the SFP+ module. Great place to look!

@ComTelCloud and you will never get full 10Gb speed while transferring files, at most you will see 600-700 not the full 1000

@@staplesphoto I would be happy with 700 at this point! Hae some Cat7 patch cables and will make some more changes.

I am not giving up!

There is a good argument for that! Not many people have 10Gb switch ports and you have to pay extra for the NIC on the NAS. Just trying to get the most out of it that I can.

Mahalo for watching! Making 10G video now, will be out by the weekend.

Going to blow past the 2.5G barrier when we add 10G devices to the network and a 10G interface to the NAS. Stay tuned!

Thanks for the kind words, glad you found it helpful!

I have never turned off PoE, but it is certainly something to consider. I think in the past with a Synology, you would have on M.2 for read, and one M.2 for write.....I see that isn't true anymore. I am making a torture test video now, 10,000 files, all of them 1KB in size. I think cache will show huge speed gains. They are in RAID 6 config Wow....871GB in less than 15 minutes, speed machine!! Please let me know what happens after you aggregate the 10G NICs. Let me know if you want to demo it on the channel, would be great content. Looking forward to putting out the next video...should show a lot of what you mention.

So true, I always thought that with the bonding, you got a true 4Gb/s link....not qty 4 x 1Gb/s links that work together!

Well, yes AND no. Depends on what is connected to the switch and what you actually use. With aggregated 4x 1Gbps ports of the NAS you'd obviously use 4 aggregated access ports on the switch and the 10Gbps port for trunk or other server connection. That would give you 4Gbps throughput (under ideal conditions) towards the NAS, but you's still have plenty od throughput available to connect to something else. Example: switch has 2x 10Gbps ports, of which 1 is a trunk connecting to another part of the network and the other is an access port of a server, and 16x 1Gbps ports, of which 4 are aggregated for the NAS, 4 aggregated for a second server, 4 connect other servers, and on the remaining 4 are workstations. So (under ideal circumstances = all the transfers are able to combine in a way that always fully saturates the interfaces): - the NAS has a theoretical connectivity of 4Gbps with multiple peers, the first server has 10Gbps, second server has 4Gbps, 4 servers have 1gbps each, 4 workstations have 1Gbps each, and whatever is bahind the trunk has 10Gbps. - if ALL of the other devices access the NAS at the same time and fulley saturate its connectivity, they can use its resourses at 4Gbps combined, 1st server's at 10Gbps, 2nd server's at 4Gbps, 3rd~6th server's at 1Gbps each, etc... It only depends on what device demands what from whom up to it's own available connectivity throughput. For example, if workstation in the "remote" segment all access the NAS at the same time, they can do it at 4Gbps combined, AND they still have 6Gbps available to access the remaining servers and workstations on this switch. Obviously however, there's no real point in assigning more throughput to a device that isn't powerful enough to saturate it, so if the NAS can't serve up the data at more than 3Gbps (regardless of whether it's data served off the disk or computed /redirected on the fly), you don't need to aggregate more than 3 ports for it, and you can use the fourth port for out-of-band management access (useful if you don't want to be cut off the management interface by heavy traffic).

You are absolutely right, did a newer video with four computers pulling data at the same time and the transfer speed got above 3Gb/s. Will be installing the 10Gb/s port into the NAS and will check speed then.

I didn't even think about doing simultaneous read/write, great idea! I imagine that will slow down the transfers immensely without the cache, we will see.

Great questions! RAM on the NAS is pretty low, but the Bus/Drive speed could be a limiting factor. The next video will include SSD Cache that will take a lot of the work from the drives. I expect the speed to go up even more.

It is real world, but the files I am transferring are very large, 1GB each. I will do a mix of large/medium/small files.

Glad you found it helpful!

Can’t wait to see what the next version brings, maybe a lower price!

No, you can bond the NICs on the NAS with a "dumb" switch. It really works well!

You bet! Glad you found it useful.

I had never heard the term 'SMB Multichannel', I love to learn!! I will discuss that topic in the next Bonding video. I will put your question out to the audience, it is a good one.

Dad jokes are the best!!!!

Great to hear! Do you agree with my pick as the best value?

I think you will be happy with the results!

Do you build your own, if so, what is your fav distro? Active Backup is our go to for small business VM & bare metal backup/restore.

Great confirmation of my results!

One of the laptops had a 2.5G connection, but you have a point, I will do it again with all four NIC connected and have 4 computers pulling data to see if I can break the 2Gb/s barrier!

@@ComTelCloud One of the laptops may have had a 2.5G connection, but each of those ports on the NAS is 1G Granted, the concept of bonding ports is new to me, so if it's not a one-to-one connection per port then forget what I said. Still, I'd be very interested to see your results (just out of curiosity/learning stand point).

Very interesting! Will post results this week.

@@ComTelCloud Cool. I'll definitely check it out when you release it. As an afterthought, don't forget that the DS1522+ supports a 10gb NIC that you can install in the back of the unit. It has literally nothing to do with these tests you're doing and is not a cheap thing to play around with (and there are other videos on the web already showing tests with it), but something else to maybe consider some day if you're looking for more video ideas. That said, the bonding solution is for the rest of us who don't have 10gb networks and is what really peaked my interest in your videos (again, thank you). When I built my home 20 years ago, I wired the whole thing with CAT 5e. Yes, it's true that you can "possibly" get 10GB (or more likely 2.5GB) speeds to run over CAT 5e if it is high quality cable, has short distance runs, and doesn't run into EMI issues, but I'd have to upgrade a lot of hardware as well and that's just not going to happen any time soon (at least not for me - maybe someone else in a similar situation).

Glad you liked it!

Interesting idea, I just assumed (we know what happens when you do that) they would be just sit there and mind their own business. After the video I am making now I will try it. Mahalo for watching.

Sure thing!

We will do that! We like to look at all levels of network equipment.

Glad you liked them!

You got it!

Added the video with lower end switches, enjoy! - th-cam.com/video/FvgUXH-OaSM/w-d-xo.html

Mahalo for watching! If you find an interesting tech story you would like us to talk about be sure to put it in the comments!