NAS for decent throughput

Mercutio

Mercutio

Mercutio

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Can anyone recommend an 3/4 bay NAS with raid 5 that will shift over 150MB/sec (to a machine that can handle that too ofc).

I appreciate here I'm basically talking dual gigabit with SMB 3+ awareness. I'm aware of a couple that do it but I'm after the cheapest setup that ticks these boxes :)
 
Well, as well as I understand SMB 3 and above, the link layer looks for unique paths from host to destination, if it finds them it can split traffic (thus improving bandwidth). If I get something with it's own wifi adapter I'm planning to have it directly cabled to my main machine (which has a 2 port intel card for the purpose) with wifi to cover the other devices in the house.
If that (wifi) isn't possible, doesn't SMB3 basically remove the need for switch hardware that's link aware? It just creates 2 paths and uses them, with RDMA where available on top?

Price wise though.... hoping to stay under £200. I keep revisiting this and kinda flipping between a NAS box and just sticking it all in a homebrew NAS (already have a 2 port card in my other PC for the purpose).
 
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Under £200 with what you want probably isn't going to happen with a NAS brand that is worth buying.

You may be better looking at either the Dell T20 or the HP Microserver as they can be had relatively cheaply (<£200) and then sticking a dual port Intel NIC into them and looking into link aggregation.

Linux (Ubuntu for example) balance-alb will be your friend here as it requires no special switch to work as most aggregation requires LACP (I think)

Home brew NAS / DIY home servers are fun to build but can suck up power, the T20 and HP micro's are less power hungry.
 
Have to agree 200 quid isn't going to get you far, even with cash back the HPE Microserver will eat up all of your budget.

Keep away from Windows their implementation of link aggregation is flaky at best although not sure how stable Windows Server 2012 is to be honest, Linux is the only answer but you need to be hot on your configuration settings and mount points.
 
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