Why can't I get better than 1gb performance bonding NIC's on my ReadyNAS Pro 6?

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Retired_Member wrote:

Well, roveer1, if you just want to have as quick as possible traffic between the NAS and a win 2016 server, why not considering the following:

1) On the NAS side disable bonding

2) Assign two different static ip addresses to the 2 nics in the nas

3) On win2016 server side, if not available introduce a 2nd nic

4) Assign two different static ip addresses to the 2 nics in the win 2016 server

5) Have two static routes between a) nic1 in the nas talking to nic1 in the server (connection1) and b) nic2 in the nas and nic2 in the server (connection2)

6) Use server to manage, which traffic goes through which connection.

 

I did not test this, as I do not need that kind scenario for my purposes, but just thought to share the idea with you.

Happy tinkering and kind regards

 

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I've actually done a little testing with this.  That is how I currently have my NAS sitting, both ports connected to ethernet with their own ip addresses.  The other night I mapped 2 workstations, each to one of the ip's and then sent large files to the NAS from both workstations.  I believe the throughput was pretty high on both links.

Of course that doesn't help my attempts to get single stream running faster, but it did show that the NAS is capable of taking data on both ports.  I'm sure it starts to bottleneck at the disk subsystem, but 100MB/s (per link, 200 aggregated) should be sustainable on the X-raid array that I'm using.

The only way to really see blazing speeds (the kind I'm looking for) is to have current gen hardware, superfast nvme SSD's, huge pci lane mobo's and cpu's and 10GB cards.  This is toolman stuff Grr rr rr and big bucks.  I'm more like Dell R510/710 stuff which is great, but no where near cutting edge.  I will say that my 19 dollar Mellanox cards are giving me 9.48Gb/s iperf's.  My only reason for trying to bond things is that these really great cheap Mellanox cards are 8x speeds and most of my older hardware don't have 8x pcie slots or I'm left deciding whether to give my 8x slot to the HBA or NIC...