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Aspirant

May 01, 2016

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 th...

Bonding ethernet ports

EDA500

Installation & Upgrade

RN314

jonl0711

Aspirant

May 23, 2016

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

BrianL2

NETGEAR Employee Retired

May 26, 2016

Hi jonl0711,

Well if you PC NIC card and OS supports NIC teaming, the transfer speed should improve. Just check this NETGEAR article for more information.

Kind regards,

BrianL
NETGEAR Community Team

StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
May 26, 2016
BrianL2 wrote:

Well if you PC NIC card and OS supports NIC teaming, the transfer speed should improve.

Not always - it depends on the bonding mode being used. Round-robin likely would improve transfer speed. LACP normally won't, since each data flow is still limited to 1 gbit.