Fastest networking without going totally daft... ;)

katie279

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Hi all,

Have a couple of PCs in a study connected to two NAS' - relatively short runs around the room - maybe seven metres of CAT6 cabling .

I do lots of image/video editing, so improved network speeds definitely handy.

My PCs have Tomahawk B450 motherboards, so theyve got gigabit ethernet by default and the two NAS are Synology.

What's the fastest I could realistically get here? - I see people talking about 2.5gbps and faster now.

Happy to get network cards or new motherboards if necessary as upgrades, just curious what's the fastest you can get with reasonable upgrades these days!
 
Ah ok, my NAS says it has a dual gigabit link?


What does this mean? Ie does it mean I can split one CAT 7 cable to get 2gbps, or run two cables to my PCs or does it just mean I can have two separate PCs streaming at 1gbps each?
 
Hmm I don't 'think' so from the list, but not a bad suggestion - they seem to do an expansion card that works with the larger rack mount cards:
www.synology.com

E10G18-T1 | Synology Inc.

Single-port, high-speed 10GBASE-T/NBASE-T add-in card for Synology servers
www.synology.com www.synology.com


-So basically if I got three 10gbps cards and a new NAS, then I'd be able to get ten times the speed? (And obviously CAT7 cables)

Might check prices as a lot of the cost of the NAS is in the hard drives which I could transfer...
 
Ah loads of good advice as always!

Re speeds - does this apply even if I've got them in RAID? Ie four disks arrayed
 
Hmm ok, so it feels like new NAS is probably the key here and can get some NVMe while I'm at it....

There appear to be a few Synologys now with 10gbe connections and lots you can plug an upgrade card into, so might nose around for best price...
 
Yip totally agree about 2.5 - 10x faster is worth the time, 2.5x feels incremental....!

Ooh that's interesting - which Synology are you referring to as £500? Cheapest I'd seen so far was £1000+?
 
Guys I love the brains on this forum - great thoughts, never would have got these ideas!!!

Few thoughts - I'm a lazy one so I think I'd want to stay with Synology as I have quite a lot of their stuff running around the house. Not impossible to shift, but would take some extra effort.

I think the DS1522 looks pretty interesting, so maybe that route would get me to 10gbe without massive effort??
 
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