I am investigating upgrading to a 10G network card in my TS-873 with 8x8tb (seagate 5400rpm shucked from easy stores) Raid 6 and a 2tb SSD cache with the goal of editing photos and videos directly from the NAS instead of managing files locally.
What I am unclear on is what the max speed I would be able to achieve on my system would be and whether I would even get close to saturating 10Gbe/5Gbe/2.5Gbe. Obviously prices for 2.5gbe equipment are way lower so if I can’t get faster than 2.5 I’d prefer not to waste the money on 10gbe equipment.
You’d need 10gb on the nas, switch, and computer, or the transfer speed will be equal to the slowest component between them. But whether you’d get that full performance comes down to the speed of the disk controllers on the nas. You either have to find some performance reviews of this exact nas, or cross your fingers when you test it out.
Use NVMe as cache and the 10G will be 100% used.
