Getting Past 1Gb/s Win7->Unraid

[SimssmiS]

Hi all

 

I´m looking for a way to achieve more than 1Gb/s speeds for Network Transfer from my win7 pc to my unraid server. 

both have SSDs and more than 1 RJ45 Slot (Supermicro Motherboard on the Server Side | Intel Pro Card on the Pc Side)

I´ve got a Managed Switch (GS1920-24 from xyXel if that is needed)

 

What are your Suggestion 

[GDRRiley]

get 10gb network cards

[Eniqmatic]

If you have more than 1 x Gb NICs on both machines and your willing to upgrade to WIndows 8.1 (I think) or WIndows 10, then you could use SMB3.0 which is supposed to be able to bond multiple NIC's for improved throughput (unlike LACP). I'm not sure if unRAID supports SMB3.0 so you would need to check.

If not, you could get 2 x 10Gb NICs as suggested above, then cable them directly to each other, this would be a bit cheaper than having to buy a 10Gb switch also.

[brwainer]

2 hours ago, Eniqmatic said:

If you have more than 1 x Gb NICs on both machines and your willing to upgrade to WIndows 8.1 (I think) or WIndows 10, then you could use SMB3.0 which is supposed to be able to bond multiple NIC's for improved throughput (unlike LACP). I'm not sure if unRAID supports SMB3.0 so you would need to check.

If not, you could get 2 x 10Gb NICs as suggested above, then cable them directly to each other, this would be a bit cheaper than having to buy a 10Gb switch also.

Unraid supports SMB 3.0 (more precisely, its version of Samba supports it) but it doesn't support SMB Multichannel (no version of Samba does yet)

[SimssmiS]

2 hours ago, brwainer said:

Unraid supports SMB 3.0 (more precisely, its version of Samba supports it) but it doesn't support SMB Multichannel (no version of Samba does yet)

So... no possibility without 10gb cards?

If so what would you guys suggest buying?

And is it possible to hook up the 2 pcs directly together and also connect both to the network

[GDRRiley]

1 hour ago, SimssmiS said:

So... no possibility without 10gb cards?

If so what would you guys suggest buying?

And is it possible to hook up the 2 pcs directly together and also connect both to the network

yeah you use 1 different connections 1 for server to pc and one for internet/rest of network. just go search for dual 10gb network cards on ebay and you should find some. would recommend a dual 10gb for the server and for the pc that way if you needed another pc that needs a fast connection to the server or you first pc it can be done. it would be like a triangle  

[SimssmiS]

2 hours ago, GDRRiley said:

yeah you use 1 different connections 1 for server to pc and one for internet/rest of network. just go search for dual 10gb network cards on ebay and you should find some. would recommend a dual 10gb for the server and for the pc that way if you needed another pc that needs a fast connection to the server or you first pc it can be done. it would be like a triangle  

i cant seem to find any cheapish ones... (maybe you could give an example link) and do I need special cables for that?

[GDRRiley]

41 minutes ago, SimssmiS said:

i cant seem to find any cheapish ones... (maybe you could give an example link) and do I need special cables for that?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Dell-Emulex-10GB-s-Dual-Port-PCI-E-Fibre-Channel-Network-Card-X320M-U011M-/191868264556?hash=item2cac3d606c:g:ngYAAOSwYmZXMNVe

you do need special cables 

[SimssmiS]

6 minutes ago, GDRRiley said:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Dell-Emulex-10GB-s-Dual-Port-PCI-E-Fibre-Channel-Network-Card-X320M-U011M-/191868264556?hash=item2cac3d606c:g:ngYAAOSwYmZXMNVe

you do need special cables 

Okay 
seeing this and not the 200€ cards I found is leeding me the way.

I found some 4gbs cards very cheap. since i´m copying from Raid0 (2x  WD Blue) to SSD that is way more than i could even handle. Would that be an alternative?

 

Could you also provide a example for the cables (the ones I found cost 80€ and up for 3 or 5 meters (9,84 to 16,4 feet)

 

Thanks for the Help on the way to the finish line ;D

[GDRRiley]

Just now, SimssmiS said:

Okay 
seeing this and not the 200€ cards I found is leeding me the way.

I found some 4gbs cards very cheap. since i´m copying from Raid0 (2x  WD Blue) to SSD that is way more than i could even handle. Would that be an alternative?

 

Could you also provide a example for the cables (the ones I found cost 80€ and up for 3 or 5 meters (9,84 to 16,4 feet)

 

Thanks for the Help on the way to the finish line ;D

LTT did a video on it a few months ago see if you can find it. 

[Eniqmatic]

7 hours ago, brwainer said:

Unraid supports SMB 3.0 (more precisely, its version of Samba supports it) but it doesn't support SMB Multichannel (no version of Samba does yet)

Yep, didn't know what unRAID used as never used it. FreeNAS has this same issue. Last I checked in on the Samba project about this particular feature, which was about a year ago, it was quite far into development as far as I could tell but still had some issues.

[System Error Message]

You can get more than 1Gb/s if you have multiple NICs, simply bond them to get more. The bonding mode is important. Balance rr can split a single TCP stream while 802.3ad cant. So if both client and NAS have 2 NICs than bonding them will allow 2Gb/s of transfer over single channel SMB if balance rr mode is used. If connecting through switch make sure your switch supports it.

[brwainer]

5 minutes ago, System Error Message said:

You can get more than 1Gb/s if you have multiple NICs, simply bond them to get more. The bonding mode is important. Balance rr can split a single TCP stream while 802.3ad cant. So if both client and NAS have 2 NICs than bonding them will allow 2Gb/s of transfer over single channel SMB if balance rr mode is used. If connecting through switch make sure your switch supports it.

This only applies if both ends are unix/linux/bsd