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What is benefit of dual NICs in x86 Ultra models?
Nice to have two NICs, but I am not sure what the main purpose is, to be honest.
Is it to provide increased transfer over the network? For example when multiple clients are storing/retrieving files?
Or is the main purpose to provide failover, i.e. one NIC sits idle until the first one fails.
Edit: Or to make the NAS accesible on two different networks..?
Is the setup of the dual NICs different in the Ultra (2-drive, x86, 1 GByte) and the new 312, by the way? Thinking about getting one of those, but would like to understand the differences to the Ultra.
thanks!
Is it to provide increased transfer over the network? For example when multiple clients are storing/retrieving files?
Or is the main purpose to provide failover, i.e. one NIC sits idle until the first one fails.
Edit: Or to make the NAS accesible on two different networks..?
Is the setup of the dual NICs different in the Ultra (2-drive, x86, 1 GByte) and the new 312, by the way? Thinking about getting one of those, but would like to understand the differences to the Ultra.
thanks!
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- On the Ultra you can use the two NICs to e.g. connect to two different networks. You cannot team the NICs.
On the 312 you can team the NICs to provide improved performance and/or failover.
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