NIC Bonding for your NAS - 3/3

Final video on experimenting to see if you should bond the NICs on your NAS.
We are pulling data from four computers, two using 1Gb & the other two using 2.5Gb connections.
If you haven't seen the first two videos, you should check them out:
Part 1 - • Multiple NAS Ports - U...
Part 2 - • Even More NAS NIC Bond...

[@WarLooch]

Thanks for doing these real-world tests. So nice to see them.
Are there any other possible bottlenecks?:
- Speed of those drives?
- Bus they are on?
- Ram utilization?
You don’t have to do another video if you don’t want to. I’m just curious.

[@ComTelCloud]

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.

[@ComTelCloud]

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.

[@ThermalWetland]

Could you do simultaneous read and write test before and after you add the cache? Thank for the video series, loved it!

[@ComTelCloud]

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.