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Help set up jumbo frames
Hi All, I want to improve performance on my ReadyNAS Ultra 4 Plus. I've read that I can enable the jumbo frames on the NAS to improve it, but I need a switch/router/network card that support jumbo fra...
in many cases, jumbo frames isnt worth the effort.
if you enable jumbo frames, on devices that have a supported jumbo frame path, you may get see some peformance increase.
on devices which don't support jumbo frames or go through a non-jumbo supported path, they will generally negotiate a non-jumbo mtu connection, but various devices have questionable JF support and sometimes can reduce performance and/or cause strange connection issues.
Unless you spend the majority amount of time transferring around bluray and/or dvd rips, then I would suggest just leaving JF off.
There are only a few ways to meaningfully improve performance, faster hard drives (ie don't use green/low power drives), faster cpu (which I don't think is upgradable on the ultra4's), and more memory (but only if you are running a ton of addons).
More memory, which is probably the easiest, won't increase the top speed, but *may* increase the low speeds and bring the average speed up by having increased cache available. Still, drive speed and cpu speed are generally the primary determining factors.
if you enable jumbo frames, on devices that have a supported jumbo frame path, you may get see some peformance increase.
on devices which don't support jumbo frames or go through a non-jumbo supported path, they will generally negotiate a non-jumbo mtu connection, but various devices have questionable JF support and sometimes can reduce performance and/or cause strange connection issues.
Unless you spend the majority amount of time transferring around bluray and/or dvd rips, then I would suggest just leaving JF off.
There are only a few ways to meaningfully improve performance, faster hard drives (ie don't use green/low power drives), faster cpu (which I don't think is upgradable on the ultra4's), and more memory (but only if you are running a ton of addons).
More memory, which is probably the easiest, won't increase the top speed, but *may* increase the low speeds and bring the average speed up by having increased cache available. Still, drive speed and cpu speed are generally the primary determining factors.
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