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Performance boost to my Netgear ReadyNAS RN-104 with powerful switch
Hi everone.
I have a switch HP A5012 JE074A. Im using my NAS for storage of movies and tv-shows. I was thinking if ethernet-teaming with my NAS through the mentioned switch would boost performance?
I'm running the Plex server on another machine with a Broadwell i-5 processor.
The switch has support for :
IEEE 802.3ad LACP |
So worth it or useless?
I've got the switch for free
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- I forgot to mention that my broadband speed is 250/100
To my understanding the rn104 is limited by its weak processor and low ram. So, you will probably not see much improvement from teaming the nics.
If you like, you can go through some hints to increase stability and performance of rn104 here
What speeds are you seeing now? You might want to try NasTester (http://www.808.dk/?code-csharp-nas-performance)
Retired_Member wrote:
To my understanding the rn104 is limited by its weak processor and low ram. So, you will probably not see much improvement from teaming the nics.
I agree that NIC teaming on the RN104 won't help much (if at all). Also, NIC teaming generally only helps if you have multiple simultaneous users. It won't speed up Plex at all, unless you have someone else accessing the NAS at the same time.
If you want to try something on the network side, you could try jumbo frames I guess.
htroudi wrote:
I forgot to mention that my broadband speed is 250/100
Your RN104 is faster than your broadband speed.
Thanks for all the answers so far. It really helped me out. When it comes to Plex (the server is located on another PC. But the movies etc are located on My NAS) I sometimes have three persons streaming from me simultaneously . Sometimes when I'm using Plex myself. In this scenario both the Plex Server PC and the NAS are working at high CPU loads.
What CPU load are you seeing on the RN104?
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