Would it make a difference if I connected my PC to a switch with Fibre NIC?

Virdi

Virdi

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Hi all,

I would like to create a super fast home network.

I have thought about adding a Dual port NIC and LACP or would it be better to add NIC with a fibre connection to a switch with SFPs?

Thanks
 
Hi,

I have lots of HD video files from cameras etc... On multiple hard drives on my main PC.

I would like a system of being able to transfer recordings to multiple NAS boxes ...FAST.

Thanks
 
Not worth it, honestly.

Not only does your PC have to be enabled for such speed, your network devices to and not JUST the network connectivity but the actual storage media also. The bump in price to 10GBit and/or Fibre is stupid. The added complexity of LACP is not worth it.
 
Sin_Chase said:
Not worth it, honestly.

Not only does your PC have to be enabled for such speed, your network devices to and not JUST the network connectivity but the actual storage media also. The bump in price to 10GBit and/or Fibre is stupid. The added complexity of LACP is not worth it.
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Ok ...so do I have any other options?
 
Options for what? What tasks that you throw at your network are slow at the moment, and what is the model of your NAS?
 
Caged said:
Options for what? What tasks that you throw at your network are slow at the moment, and what is the model of your NAS?
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Options for a FAST network transfer speed please.

Synology is a DS215+

Zyxel is NAS540

Thanks
 
Well anything more than 4 x 1Gb links from your PC is going to be wasted if that's all you've got at the NAS ends, approximately anyway. Quad port gig card, aggregate the links and do the same with the 2 at either end on the NAS boxes. Even that is most likely overkill.

I think your dual port NIC is the way to go. I recently picked up an HP 1910 24 port layer 3 switch with PoE and a few other toys for £75 on the 'bay, something like that should see you right.
 
randal said:
Well anything more than 4 x 1Gb links from your PC is going to be wasted if that's all you've got at the NAS ends, approximately anyway. Quad port gig card, aggregate the links and do the same with the 2 at either end on the NAS boxes. Even that is most likely overkill.

I think your dual port NIC is the way to go. I recently picked up an HP 1910 24 port layer 3 switch with PoE and a few other toys for £75 on the 'bay, something like that should see you right.
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Did this work well for you? What improvements have you seen?

Thanks
 
Wait for 10Gbps equipment.

I have the following..

Quad port Intel card in a server with LACP to switch, dual port NAS, dual port Intel card PC.

For a single file transfer, they are still limited to 1Gbps (~112MB/s), but they can handle multiple file transfers.

Ie, the server with the quad port card can send out 4x 112MB/s file transfers at the same time (as long as the drives can take it).


It's not often I utilise this though. Handy for taking Macrium backups on multiple machines at the same time, but for a home user, that's about the only time I 'need' multiple links.


I would love to have 10Gbps, but it costs so much right now.
 
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