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TransientWolf
Jun 13, 2015Aspirant
Move Pro to Ultra worth it?
Hi. I have a ReadyNas Ultra 6 which I have used successfully although had a drive fail and another experience ATA errors during the rebuild of the spare that meant I could never get it back into redu...
StephenB
Jun 13, 2015Guru - Experienced User
I'm not sure if how the performance of those two models will compare. You should be able to migrate the disks (powered down).
Bonding generally only increases performance if you have multiple flows. Usually that is multiple clients, but multiple flows between two machines would see some benefit also. Most of the time you won't see any benefit on one machine. You'd need to set up bonding on the switch as well as the NAS and the Mac.
If you are talking about backup between the two NAS, then rsync is definitely the way to go. Its not difficult to set up, it is built into frontview backup.
Bonding generally only increases performance if you have multiple flows. Usually that is multiple clients, but multiple flows between two machines would see some benefit also. Most of the time you won't see any benefit on one machine. You'd need to set up bonding on the switch as well as the NAS and the Mac.
If you are talking about backup between the two NAS, then rsync is definitely the way to go. Its not difficult to set up, it is built into frontview backup.
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