I didn't even think about doing simultaneous read/write, great idea! I imagine that will slow down the transfers immensely without the cache, we will see.

Great questions! RAM on the NAS is pretty low, but the Bus/Drive speed could be a limiting factor. The next video will include SSD Cache that will take a lot of the work from the drives. I expect the speed to go up even more.

It is real world, but the files I am transferring are very large, 1GB each. I will do a mix of large/medium/small files.

Glad you found it helpful!

Can’t wait to see what the next version brings, maybe a lower price!

No, you can bond the NICs on the NAS with a "dumb" switch. It really works well!

You bet! Glad you found it useful.

I had never heard the term 'SMB Multichannel', I love to learn!! I will discuss that topic in the next Bonding video. I will put your question out to the audience, it is a good one.

Dad jokes are the best!!!!

Great to hear! Do you agree with my pick as the best value?

I think you will be happy with the results!

Do you build your own, if so, what is your fav distro? Active Backup is our go to for small business VM & bare metal backup/restore.

Great confirmation of my results!

One of the laptops had a 2.5G connection, but you have a point, I will do it again with all four NIC connected and have 4 computers pulling data to see if I can break the 2Gb/s barrier!

@@ComTelCloud One of the laptops may have had a 2.5G connection, but each of those ports on the NAS is 1G Granted, the concept of bonding ports is new to me, so if it's not a one-to-one connection per port then forget what I said. Still, I'd be very interested to see your results (just out of curiosity/learning stand point).

Very interesting! Will post results this week.

@@ComTelCloud Cool. I'll definitely check it out when you release it. As an afterthought, don't forget that the DS1522+ supports a 10gb NIC that you can install in the back of the unit. It has literally nothing to do with these tests you're doing and is not a cheap thing to play around with (and there are other videos on the web already showing tests with it), but something else to maybe consider some day if you're looking for more video ideas. That said, the bonding solution is for the rest of us who don't have 10gb networks and is what really peaked my interest in your videos (again, thank you). When I built my home 20 years ago, I wired the whole thing with CAT 5e. Yes, it's true that you can "possibly" get 10GB (or more likely 2.5GB) speeds to run over CAT 5e if it is high quality cable, has short distance runs, and doesn't run into EMI issues, but I'd have to upgrade a lot of hardware as well and that's just not going to happen any time soon (at least not for me - maybe someone else in a similar situation).

Glad you liked it!

Interesting idea, I just assumed (we know what happens when you do that) they would be just sit there and mind their own business. After the video I am making now I will try it. Mahalo for watching.

Sure thing!

We will do that! We like to look at all levels of network equipment.

Glad you liked them!

You got it!

Added the video with lower end switches, enjoy! - kzbin.info/www/bejne/fKfKhot-YrSUia8

Mahalo for watching! If you find an interesting tech story you would like us to talk about be sure to put it in the comments!