NAS Network speed explained?

[paperclips]

Hello,

If a NAS with 6 gigabit/s HDD's and two Gigabit Ethernet ports connected with Cat6 to a Gigabit switch why does a disc speed checker only show 100 mb/s

With link aggregation you would see 200 mb/s

Why so low?

Thanks

 

[paperclips]

That's not how link aggregation works unfortunately. All it means is if one link is at 100% the other link if free to be used still, it doesn't combine them for double the throughput on a single transfer.

So basically you can have 2x 110mb/s transfers, but not 1x 220mb/s transfer.

Fair enough. Thanks for that. I'm still wondering why even at 220mb/s its so low? when everything in the network is gigabit?