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Bonding 10Gbe ports to get double bandwidth with RN626X - is it possible?
I'm looking to set up a second 626X for our San Francisco studio and am curious if I can take advantage of bonding to double up and downstream bandwidth on a 10Gbe network. The idea is to run the 626...
Makes sense. I was hoping I might approach NVMe speeds but that's probably a pipe dream. Even if I could get SSD speeds with NAS capacity and redundancy, that would be a win. I've been wanting to do this upgrade for a while and will hopefully have the needed resources soon. Once I do I'll give bonding a try and let you know how it goes. Thanks!
dhl wrote:
Even if I could get SSD speeds with NAS capacity and redundancy, that would be a win.
ReadyTier is worth considering. You'd need to go with no more than 6 mechanical disks though.
Caching metadata on the SSD would speed up folder browsing, and copying folders with small files (photos for instance). Caching data is also possible, and could help if you frequently access a working set of files while on a project.
StephenB wrote:
dhl wrote:Even if I could get SSD speeds with NAS capacity and redundancy, that would be a win.
ReadyTier is worth considering. You'd need to go with no more than 6 mechanical disks though.
Caching metadata on the SSD would speed up folder browsing, and copying folders with small files (photos for instance). Caching data is also possible, and could help if you frequently access a working set of files while on a project.
My hope is to be able to use the ReadyNAS as live project storage during production. I work on immersive 360° video projects with very large size video files and would like to be able to keep them on the NAS while I'm working. With enough bandwidth, in theory it should work. But it means that my general use case would be streaming large files instead of working with lots of small ones. Would ReadyTier help with this?
dhl wrote:
But it means that my general use case would be streaming large files instead of working with lots of small ones. Would ReadyTier help with this?Metadata caching helps the most with folder browsing (or just opening a lot of files from an application). Data Caching can help with file transfer speeds, but of course that depends on how the cache is managed and whether the files fit on the SSD in the first place.
How large are the files? What file transfer speeds do you need?
SATA 3 is limited to 600 MB/sec. If you are looking to exceed 1000 MB/sec you'll need to use RAID-0 - though other RAID modes (like RAID-10) might work, they would need more SSDs. Running ReadyTier with RAID-0 is a bad idea - you could easily lose your data volume. But another possibility is to set up a SSD RAID-0 volume, and move the files to/from the SSD volume as needed.
If you get a couple of SSDs, you can test this. Just power down the NAS, remove the existing disks (labeling by slot), and do a fresh install with the SSDs. Use flexraid, so you can choose RAID-0. After you've done your performance tests, you can power down, and just reinsert the original disks in their original slots.
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