Synology - pushing beyond GigE speeds

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Wondered if anyone has already done this.

I currently run a Synology DS220+ with 2x12Tb drives. I have slowly grown to love it, I've got it doing regular bare metal backups of our PCs/Macs, it also real time backs up my photos (PC and phone) and I've got it as a mapped drive to share game installs across PCs - simple and brilliant.

I have however start to feel it is just slow. GigE is painful for large backups so I wanted to see what the cost would be of pushing for a faster setup and it looks like it's a big leap in cost. I see some people are using USB 2.5GbE but my drive speed would limit the benefit of that.

I thought the new 2023 models would have at least 2.5GbE but they're still sporting 2x1Gb ports. The 10GB upgrade is another £110. My motherboard has 10GbE, looks like a 10GigE switch around £200 too.

Then even if I did put all that cash in I'd still be limited by the 4 disk arrays write speed I think. Does NVMe caching help with this?
 
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Your not going to get much more out of spinning drives with 2.5 or 10Gb it's not worth it. Only bother if you have flash storage

Cache won't make much difference

What 10gb switch are you seeing for £200?
 
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Ah yes two 10Gb ports wouldn't be enough for my use but yea that would work but again cache and mechanical just not worth 10Gb speeds to be fair.

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I moved to 10GbE at home and found it made my lab stuff significantly quicker - but you really want flash storage everywhere to make the most of it.

I use a Netgear XS508M which is an 8 port jobby. Was £300 back in 2020 - looking at them now though they appear to have gone up in price quite a bit, the TP-LINK TL-SX1008 looks ok though at around £300ish
 
Echoing the need for flash to even really consider it. Like all flash.

I have a 920+ with 4 x disk R5 plus 2 large nvme for cache on read write and never seem to get close to saturating the dual LACP ports. So 2g effectively.
 
I bought two USB 2.5gbe adapters, and have a direct link to my main computer.
Raid10 I get 250MB write speeds on normal hard drives.
 
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I've moved away from these NAS boxes now - using mini PCs with NVME storage (the interfaces tend to be a bit slower than desktop PCs but can still manage 1000+MB/s) which then internally replicate to spinning discs. 2.5Gb LAN on these mini PCs aren't uncommon now, though whether they can actually perform at those speeds need to be checked on a case by case basis, and some industrial ones have 10Gb LAN.

There is a massive difference in stuff like opening a folder with lots of media and copying large files, etc.
 
You don't need a switch if you're using secondary ports as a connection to the NAS.

IE, if you have a 10gbe card for the Synology and 2x ports on your PC, you can connect pc directly to the Synology on the 10gb port, manually set IPs for both devices and they can talk on those IPs. This is exactly what I do at home. I only have two devices that can do 10 GB.

No need to waste money and power on a 10 GB switch.
 
sityeuropa said:
I bought two USB 2.5gbe adapters, and have a direct link to my main computer.
Raid10 I get 250MB write speeds on normal hard drives.
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+1

As has been said really, you might touch 2.5Gbps if the drives are fast enough but you won't be anywhere near 10Gbps on spinning disks.

I'm running TrueNAS with 2x Seagate Ironwolf drives (5900rpm I think) in a RAID1 array and see a max of about 180MB/s over 10Gbps links.
 
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