Probably a stupid question.

[Ghost0625]

So both my main desktop and my nas PC have built in 2.5g nics. My home router only has 1g ports. Do all I need is a 2.5g switch to take advantage of that speed when moving files to the nas or does the router also have to be 2.5 as well. Like I said. Probably a stupid question lol. Thnxs

[strange13930]

4 minutes ago, Ghost0625 said:

So both my main desktop and my nas PC have built in 2.5g nics. My home router only has 1g ports. Do all I need is a 2.5g switch to take advantage of that speed when moving files to the nas or does the router also have to be 2.5 as well. Like I said. Probably a stupid question lol. Thnxs

I think the router would have to be at 2.5gs to but start by buying the switch first and see the speeds before buying a new router, and this is a good question

[johnt]

Yes, all the devices need to be 2.5 Gbps compatible in order to see those speeds, including the switch. Also, the drives in the devices need to be able to read/write those speeds. So if your NAS has older or slower drives that can’t do 200 to 250MBps, then you won’t saturate the network bandwidth. I get about 280 MBps when transferring large files from NVME to NVME over my network.

[Blue4130]

8 hours ago, strange13930 said:

I think the router would have to be at 2.5gs to but start by buying the switch first and see the speeds before buying a new router, and this is a good question

 

7 hours ago, johnt said:

Yes, all the devices need to be 2.5 Gbps compatible in order to see those speeds, including the switch.

 

8 hours ago, Ghost0625 said:

So both my main desktop and my nas PC have built in 2.5g nics. My home router only has 1g ports. Do all I need is a 2.5g switch to take advantage of that speed when moving files to the nas or does the router also have to be 2.5 as well. Like I said. Probably a stupid question lol. Thnxs

NO! The router does NOT need to be 2.5g. Only the PC, Nas and switch do. Local network doesn't touch the router. It is only providing the IP address in this case. After that, everything bypasses the router.

 

But harddrive speed may be your limit here.

[Allan B]

Not stupid as you got different answers .  As @Blue4130 says, if you get a 2.5gbit switch, traffic between your NAS and your computer will operate at 2.5gbit speeds (assuming your storage can handle >1gbit speeds) and communication from your computer to the internet will be at 1gbit speed.  This is the exact setup i have..  2 computers and a NAS run at 2.5gbit, the internet router is only 1gbit all connected to a 2.5gbit switch...

[Ghost0625]

2 hours ago, Allan B said:

Not stupid as you got different answers .  As @Blue4130 says, if you get a 2.5gbit switch, traffic between your NAS and your computer will operate at 2.5gbit speeds (assuming your storage can handle >1gbit speeds) and communication from your computer to the internet will be at 1gbit speed.  This is the exact setup i have..  2 computers and a NAS run at 2.5gbit, the internet router is only 1gbit all connected to a 2.5gbit switch...

My bulk storage is spinning disks but I have a 2tb nvme drive acting as a cache drive. 

[Ghost0625]

I am a starting down the rabbit hole of home severs and was hoping I didn't need to upgrade my router. Yet. I'm moving soon so my plan was to upgrade them. 

[E-waste]

15 hours ago, Ghost0625 said:

2tb nvme drive acting as a cache drive

What are the write cycles endurance rated on that flash storage?  How about a raid0 of some 15000K SAS disks, wouldn't be as fast, but would not be limited by write cycle wearout, the components might only work for about 10 years though.

 

So, will the nvme last about the same amount of time as a spinning disk?