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RE: Is your setup flawed ?

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Lman

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In Reply to: RE: Is your setup flawed ? posted by AbeCollins on August 08, 2024 at 07:51:49

I am currently running a QNAP box and a TrueNAS box, both having 12TB of mirrored storage space and both are connected via Ethernet. Any issues I've had pertaining to transfer speed were due to LAN performance. Once I replaced a slow switch and an inferior cable my transfer speeds increased dramatically.

I just upgraded to 2.5GB and it's a noticeable improvement. I put a 2.5gb adapter in the TrueNAS box and used port trunking on the QNAP box to try and gain some speed there.

I use Audirvana for music playback and have really never noticed any lag using OS X or Windows.

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RE: Is your setup flawed ? - AbeCollins 20:43:19 08/08/24 (2)
I've never played with TrueNAS but had some ZFS experience before I retired.
I can do link aggregation on my Synology NAS but I can't do it with my cheapie unmanaged Gigabit switches so the 1-Gigabit limit will still be there. A 10-Gigabit switch would be nice but those are still rather pricey. I haven't looked into 2.5 Gigabit switches. Maybe I should.
The most I can get on large sustained backups or transfers is about 100 MB/Sec or so (+/-) which is consistent with the limitations of a 1-Gigabit network.
Music playback with the current NAS setup has no noticeable I/O latency or bandwidth issues. It's never been an issue and it is certainly not bound by HDD IOPs. Music playback doesn't require much.

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- RE: Is your setup flawed ? - Lman 09:15:58 08/12/24 (1)
  "Music playback with the current NAS setup has no noticeable I/O latency or bandwidth issues. It's never been an issue and it is certainly not bound by HDD IOPs. Music playback doesn't require much."
  
  True. I upgraded to 2.5gbps only because I tend to move large files across boxes. I have seen transfers hit 2.5 and it is pretty sweet.
  - RE: Is your setup flawed ? - AbeCollins 10:50:13 08/12/24 (0)
    Agree. Any motivation for me to upgrade to 2.5 Gbs (or even 10Gbs someday!) would be for backup speed and large transfers over the network.

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