Using a NAS over wifi

oscarmorgan · February 6, 2020

Hi,

I'm currently building a nas purley to archive projects, it has decent specs but I have no way to connect it to my router. Will connecting it to wifi, (with a decent neetwork card), be painfully slow to use over wifi and/or ethernet? I'm using Google Wifi.

Thanks heaps

LIGISTX · February 6, 2020

4 minutes ago, oscarmorgan said:

Hi,

I'm currently building a nas purley to archive projects, it has decent specs but I have no way to connect it to my router. Will connecting it to wifi, (with a decent neetwork card), be painfully slow to use over wifi and/or ethernet? I'm using Google Wifi.

Thanks heaps

I mean, I guess it very much depends what you consider slow, and what the use case is.

What kinda NAS are you building? What do you need it for? My homelab is also my NAS, it runs FreeNAS under ESXi, and for my use case I bet I could get away with it over wifi, I have it wired..... but I bet it wouldn't matter either way. But its a single user, with mostly large file reads (movies/tv shows streamed over plex), some smaller files which are RAW DSLR pix, but hard to say for sure.

oscarmorgan · February 6, 2020

16 hours ago, LIGISTX said:

I mean, I guess it very much depends what you consider slow, and what the use case is.

What kinda NAS are you building? What do you need it for? My homelab is also my NAS, it runs FreeNAS under ESXi, and for my use case I bet I could get away with it over wifi, I have it wired..... but I bet it wouldn't matter either way. But its a single user, with mostly large file reads (movies/tv shows streamed over plex), some smaller files which are RAW DSLR pix, but hard to say for sure.

Hey,

Thanks for your reply, it will just be 8tb running in raid 1. It has a i5-4590 and 8gb of DDR3 and will only be used by me sort of as a place to dump all my old projects, (around 10gb each). I understand it wont be crazy fast but what sort of speeds could i expect?

Cheers

Mihle · February 7, 2020

Just a note, Unraid does not support WiFi. Don't know it's a way to modify it so it does, but it don't out of the box.

LIGISTX · February 9, 2020

On 2/6/2020 at 2:44 PM, oscarmorgan said:

Hey,

Thanks for your reply, it will just be 8tb running in raid 1. It has a i5-4590 and 8gb of DDR3 and will only be used by me sort of as a place to dump all my old projects, (around 10gb each). I understand it wont be crazy fast but what sort of speeds could i expect?

Cheers

Wifi can be faster then gigabit depending on the situation. But, it’s extremely unlikely that will actually be the use case you end up with. But it should be “fine”.