Caporegime
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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?
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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