Getting 10G speed with Synology NAS and ASUS 10g card?

[Vincent_39]

First time poster here and this site has been a massive help. I'm a long time Mac user who has switched to PC building my first PC with the help of this site.

I've build a new PC based on the ASUS X99 WS 10G motherboard. And I have a DiskStation DS1815+ as a backup & server.

My question is, how do I get 10G speed between them? The motherboard has two 10G Ethernet ports but the Synology does not. Does it have to be on both ends?

The way I have my network set up is my PC is connected to a Linksys EA9500 router with a cat5e cable, and the router is connected to both a cable modem and the NAS with cat5E cables.

Also is it possible to link to computer direct to a NAS with Ethernet cable without going through a router? Using it as just a external drive?

Thanks
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[bill001g]

You need 10g ports on all equipment in the path. You could if the nas had 10g port directly connect it to the computer.

Still the network is not the bottleneck many times. You would need a disk subsystem in the nas that could actually use more than 1gbit of data. Most times you would need SSD or high speed disks in a proper array to get a NAS that can exceed 1gbit. Even the very best systems come nowhere close to 10gbit

Then it does you no good to have a supper fast nas on a 10g port if you have a crappy slow hard drive in your machine. Even a single SSD will not run as fast. So now you need high speed arrays both in your PC and you NAS. Comes down why you would even do this. Much simpler to just put a fast disk system in your pc that need the performance and not even use a NAS or 10g network.

Pretty much 10g ports on consumer machines are purely marketing tools...and bragging rights for some people

 

[w00sey]

It looks like every single thing on your network bottlenecks that 10G port on your motherboard: the cat5e cables, the ports on your router, the ports on your NAS, and the read/write speed of the NAS. As bill mentioned, 10G ports on consumer machines only really have very niche uses at the moment since most other consumer equipment doesn't support that speed.

As for an actual solution, if you are wanting to just use the NAS with one computer as an external drive like you mentioned, why not just remove the hard drives from it and install them in your computer? You would get faster transfer speeds and take up less space.