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Virus Scanner under 6.6.0 kills performance
I am echoing a "closed thread" which can be found here: https://community.netgear.com/t5/Current-NETGEAR-and-Partners/Antivirus-App-in-ReadyNAS/m-p/1057480#M4625 I have religiously had Anti V...
JBDragon1 wrote:
I have no need for 10Gbit yet. You need a new expensive switch. Do you wire up for 10Gbit on your computer? Another NAS to backup onto at that speed? You really need a fast processor to hog up PLEX and use up all that bandwidth transcoding. I see no need right now. 10 years from now? Who knows!!! These slower speeds I'm hearing about inthe around 4Gbit area wher eyou can still use your Cat5e or Cat6 cable with a lower price point. I don't know if that'll gain traction, but it sounds more reasonable price wise in a number of ways.
I do have an XS708Ev2 now, but the 526X is the only 10Gbit device. In multi-client testing it easily beats LACP performance. For most home users, I think that likely doesn't matter much, but in small office it would improve performance quite a bit.
I've also noticed recent pushes to standardize 5Gbit ethernet - if that reduces the price points to consumer levels it would be great thing.
Longer term, I am migrating towards an application server+NAS approach (running apps on a dedicated PC instead of on the NAS). I was originally thinking about a small-form factor PC (Nuc or Lenvovo ThinkCentre Tiny), but now am leaning towards a slim desktop form factor - because it can be upgraded to 10 gbit. I have a PC 10gbit NIC on order (thanks to beisser for his links), when it arrives I'll give it a whirl. Beisser was getting 500-600 MB/sec over SMB, which is impressive (and would make the application server concept much more powerful).
JBDragon1 wrote:
If I add another Etherent port to my computer and then Bond those 2 ports, can I get 2Gigabit from the NAS to my PC?
Not with LACP. LACP was originally designed to as a trunk protocol (running between switches). Each dataflow is assigned by the sending device to a single ethernet cable, so no dataflow can exceed one gigabit. That was done quite intentionally. That "xmit hash" configuration on the NAS determines how each flow gets assigned to a NIC. Most switches I've seen don't let you configure the xmit hash - I think generally they are hard-configured to hash on layer 2 (mac addresses).
A static LAG and some of the non-LACP choices in the NAS (round-robin for instance) could allow you push above 1 gbit, but you do need to be careful that the NAS configuration still gives good performance with single-NIC clients. You don't want packet loss on those paths.
Ok, makes sense. Interesting. Always like to learn new things. I do get the Server + NAS apporch. You can in general not spend so much on the NAS unless you want that 10Gbit speed. it's mainly what I had been doing, running everything onmy Windows PC witht he NAS just having the Data on it. Going with a Server, really just means it's not your main computer, Server is really nothing more then a computer. I get doing this if you really need speed witha i5 or i7 processor to run what you need and have enough for Transcoding with PLEX. Need more then 2-3 at once transcoding, maybe more if it's direct play. I assume you'll be running some type of Linux for the server?
5Gbit ethernet would be great. If prices are in line with Gigabit and able to use the same Cat cable. I would be just fine with that. I'd upgrade our Work Network to that. It would really need to be the new normal stanrard of 10/100/1000/5000 type standard. Everything just moving to that.
Always on a quest for more speed. Be it a computer cpu or your Network. I still remember by first 300 baud modem. I could read the text as fast as it scrolled on the screen. I ran a BBS back then first on C64's then 128's and finally Amiga's. These days, I don't know you can do anything without the Internet. For so many, it's just always been there.
JBDragon1 wrote:
I get doing this if you really need speed witha i5 or i7 processor to run what you need and have enough for Transcoding with PLEX. Need more then 2-3 at once transcoding, maybe more if it's direct play. I assume you'll be running some type of Linux for the server?
An i7 processor is what I'd likely get. Right now I'm more inclined to use Windows instead of linux - some apps I'm interested in run better on Windows (CrashPlan backup is one). Though if the server PC is set up for virtual machines I could run both OS.
JBDragon1 wrote:
...For so many, it's just always been there.
True enough. Things have changed a lot since the BBS / dialup days.
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