dizzyfish
New Around Here
I am in the midst of trying to set up a network with the main aim of video editing in mind. Currently, I just have a simple wireless home router and an Asustor AS202TE and do simple video editing on my PC. I am looking at upgrading.... A newer faster NAS drive, and possibly upgrading the network infrastructure. Therein lies the issue. I have been reading many, many articles about switches, NAS's etc etc including some very good articles on SMB I might add, but I feel like I am going around in circles due to my lack of knowledge. I was going down the route of getting a new Gigabit switch and was looking at buying an ASUSTOR AS5304T and using my old NAS as a backup device using rsync. However, looking at the specs, I was not sure this would be much faster than my current setup. The editing is done on a reasonably fast PC which is a few years old so only has Gigabit ethernet. I saw that the AS4004T has 2 x 2,5Gbe ports, and that sent me on another search, where I ended up thinking maybe I should buy a 10Gbe switch to take advantage of link aggregation on the 2 x 2.5Gbe ports of the NAS. The Unifi US-XG-6POE switch seemed Ok, but expensive. Another merry journey, and I found I could get a 5Gbe USB3 network adaptor for my PC. Then I looked aroud a bit more and wondered if I would get any benefit from buying an ASUSTOR AS4004T which has a 10Gbe port. Strangely, the 2 NAS's are about the same price, despite one being essentially 2.5Gbe and the other 10Gbe.
I'm hoping you guys can help me, as with much of my searching, I am realising that the figures quoted in the specs are not always the ones you actually get when you factor in all of the other items in the whole system. In terms of actual file transfer speeds from my PC to the NAS, what relative improvements am I likely to see between the AS5304T using 2x2.5Gbe link aggregation and the AS4004T using the 10Gbe port (whilst using a 5Gbe usb network adaptor on the PC and a Unifi US-XG-6POE switch)?
Thank you in advance for any advice you can give me.
Ian
I'm hoping you guys can help me, as with much of my searching, I am realising that the figures quoted in the specs are not always the ones you actually get when you factor in all of the other items in the whole system. In terms of actual file transfer speeds from my PC to the NAS, what relative improvements am I likely to see between the AS5304T using 2x2.5Gbe link aggregation and the AS4004T using the 10Gbe port (whilst using a 5Gbe usb network adaptor on the PC and a Unifi US-XG-6POE switch)?
Thank you in advance for any advice you can give me.
Ian