On Sat, 24 Oct 2015 21:39:14 -0400, "(PeteCresswell)" <
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Got a NAS box on my LAN which has two Ethernet ports on it.
What speed are the ports? Can they be ganged/teamed/combined in any way?
Got an old gaming case full of hard drives and a Windows-7/DriveBender
system that I use for backing up the NAS box.
That one is likely to have a Gigabit port, right?
Over 10 TB of data, so over the LAN it's not going all that fast on the >initial synch/load.
What does "over the LAN" mean in this case? Are the two devices connected to the same switch? How fast is that switch? If there are multiple switches in
the path, how fast are each of them?
I am wondering if there is any hope for connecting the two boxes >Ethernet-Port-to-Ethernet-Port directly with a Cat6 cable.
If both are Gigabit, you can use either type of cable to directly connect
them. The Gigabit spec requires auto negotiation of several properties, including duplex and MDI/MDIX, so both straight-thru and crossover should
work equally well.
If one or both are Fast Ethernet (100Mbps) then you can directly connect
them with a crossover cable, but if both devices are already connected to
the same switch you aren't likely to see much improvement, if any.
Seems like the load process should go a bit faster that way.
Assuming you didn't buy the cheapest switch you could find, I'd be surprised
if it's the bottleneck.
I do have a crossover cable available.
Is there any hope for this ?
If the NAS box has 100Mbps interfaces, your best option for improved network speed to/from it will be to replace it. :-)
Personally, I'm not going to buy another NAS until I can reasonably
configure it to have at least one 10 Gig interface.
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Not directly answering your question, but you'll get MUCH faster transfer
times if you can bring a NAS drive over to the PC and connect it locally, perhaps via eSATA, do the data transfer, then return it to the NAS. Bring another drive over and repeat, etc.
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