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RN528X ethernet bandwidth
I would like to speed up transferring data to and from my RN528X and note that it has two 10Gbe port. I currently have it linked to my LAN via a 1gigabit switch so can't get more than 112 Bps transf...
Yes, you could consider creating a LAG (LACP or static) from two Ethernet ports on your NAS. This requires a configureable switch at least, to configure the two ports as a static LAG or LACP LAG - otherwise there willl be some massive loop condition on your network.
I too have an RN528X. Suggestions:
1) Upgrade your components to 10GbE. StephenB mentioned various switches out there, I use a multi-gig switch (XS512EM), with a windows desktop PC that has a 10GbE NIC on the motherboard. Also have a 2nd PC with an Intel X550-T2 NIC. Finally, have a Lenovo T14S with a Sonnet TB3-to-10GbE converter. That converter is plug-and-play, but it's bulky and expensive ($300'ish). May be something newer/cheaper out there that I'm unaware of. Using spinning HDD's (4TB Toshiba N300's that came with the unit), I was fetching about 400MB/s writes and 1GB/s reads on large, compressed files. Tiny files - numbers plummeted precipitously. In the last two weeks, I swapped out all 8 disks for 8 Crucial MX500 SATA3 SSD's. Roughly speaking, now I'm fetching 550-620 MB/s writes and saturating the reads at 1.1+ GB/s over a single 10GbE link. Tiny files are also now transferring at much, much faster rates, which the experts on here have explained on numerous threads (basically, the random-access speed of these SSD's is blindingly fast compared to the spinning HDD's). As a bonus, the NAS runs nearly silently now, and consumes less power.
2) Suggest to start with a single 10GbE link and see if you're happy with it. It's true that Netgear's Performance Guide for the RN528X shows it hitting roughly 1.1 GB/s write speeds and 2 GB/s read speeds with both 10GbE ETH outputs active, each running to its own switch that fans out to 2 PC's using RAM disks. Doesn't specify any LAG or LACP configurations. However, I spent weeks trying to get LAG/LACP speeds higher over a single PC with 2 ETH connections and gave up. With multiple simultaneous PC clients, it should work as others have noted See old thread:
https://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/READYNAS-100/ReadyNAS_OS_Performance_Guide.pdf
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