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ReadyNAS Bonded Ethernet
I've recently purchase the RN314 and EDA500 unit.
I would like to know can I bond the ethernet ports to a ProSafe 8-port Gigabit Ethernet Switch.
I have around 10 TB of images I need to copy to the RN, will this halp in speed. In order words will bonding the ethernet ports give me 2 Gb network speed?
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The GS108T supports LACP bonding. The unmanaged versions (GS108, GS108E, GS108PE) do not, and neither does the GSS108E. You can still use TLB or ALB bonding with the unmanaged switches as they don't require special switch support.
jonl0711 wrote:
In order words will bonding the ethernet ports give me 2 Gb network speed?
It might improve the speeds if you are downloading from more than one PC - especially if some are downloading to the 314 shares and others are downloadng to the EDA shares.
With LACP bonding, if you use 2 clients to do the uploading there is still a 50-50 chance that the traffic from both clients will use the same ethernet port on the RN314.
jonl0711 wrote:
I have around 10 TB of images I need to copy to the RN
Where are these images now? External USB drives? If so, are they USB 3.0? How are they formatted?
Note that if data is on USB 2.0 drives, the USB 2 speed is the bottleneck, so bonding won't speed the transfers.
The data is on internal drives on a RAID 5 setup.
They are raw files from the Canon Camera (.cr2) and each file is at least 25 MB in size.
I was wondering if I should put 2 NIC oin the PC and then try teaming to the switch,.
BTW the switch has been changed to a Cisco Meraki Model MS220-8P.
Regards,
jon
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