Home Network idea, Need help

[Hadouken434]

Hi all! got to admit it has been a while! Trust you are all well

 

Been looking for an ideal way to network my new place (sharing with 2 friends) with network speed being the priority between the 2 PC's and the file server, secondly is internet speed/throughput, I've done a rough diagram of how i think it would work best but you guy's will know better.

 

The red lines are 4 Cat6 cables with the idea of between the router, server and the switches will be 4Gbit to give the best speed possible between them.

Blue dotted lines are wireless and black is single 1gbit to devices. 

 

I have left it open for upgrades in the future (network expansion, hardware upgrades ect.) but for know with what I have I believe that's the best set up I can do, which is why I am asking you group of wondering people   

 

Cheers

[mrgooglegeek]

Looks good but you really don't need 4 GB lines, one would do pretty well. Only do that if you will be transferring SSD to SSD frequently. It means more configuration, more cable, and more things to go wrong. Otherwise, looks fine.

[Bananasplit_00]

looks pretty good, might be overkill with the 4xgigabit lines but go for what you thing will work the best here  should work pretty good

[Hadouken434]

1 minute ago, mrgooglegeek said:

Looks good but you really don't need 4 GB lines, one would do pretty well. Only do that if you will be transferring SSD to SSD frequently. It means more configuration, more cable, and more things to go wrong. Otherwise, looks fine.

It's mainly because there is 3 of us here who could all be using the server at the same time (the server is shared storage for streaming films to TV ect as well as private storage/backups), just trying to eliminate any possible bottlenecks.

 

[mrgooglegeek]

Understood, but if the machine/NAS you are streaming from uses mechanical drives, it wouldn't make much of a difference. If you really wanted to you could use 2 GB cables, but even that would go over the limit of the drives. Not only that, but you need hardware that supports using multiple links simultaneously, which can cost more than a normal switch.

[Hadouken434]

24 minutes ago, mrgooglegeek said:

Understood, but if the machine/NAS you are streaming from uses mechanical drives, it wouldn't make much of a difference. If you really wanted to you could use 2 GB cables, but even that would go over the limit of the drives. Not only that, but you need hardware that supports using multiple links simultaneously, which can cost more than a normal switch.

It's a HP prolaint DL380, 2 banks of 4 drives in raid 5 which is why i think ill use the 4gb.

[mrgooglegeek]

1 hour ago, Hadouken434 said:

It's a HP prolaint DL380, 2 banks of 4 drives in raid 5 which is why i think ill use the 4gb.

Well its up to you, but I wouldn't do it if i where you.

[Hadouken434]

26 minutes ago, mrgooglegeek said:

Well its up to you, but I wouldn't do it if i where you.

Hell im listening dude, like i said, im a novice at this 

[KuJoe]

4Gbps is overkill as others have said. Streaming 4K HD content takes 20Mbps at most so even if all of your devices (desktops, laptops, and mobile) were streaming a 4K HD movie at the same time you'd still have 860Mbps available for anything else you wanted to do. For the price you're going to pay for managed switches it's not worth it to get more bandwidth than you'll ever use (if you bond 4 ports together for 4Gbps of total bandwidth the most speed a single transfer can use is 1Gbps).

[Mikensan]

You'll run out of IOPS before you max out that aggregated 4gb connection on the NAS assuming the 2 banks of 4 drives are mechanical. Speed increases on a stripe, IOPS does not. If it were a 4gb SFP connection, that's a different story since a single transfer could hit 4gb in that scenario. Not to mention the router/switches need to support some form of link aggregation. 

 

Between the modem/wifi and the "central" switch, I definitely don't see a "need" for 4gbps. Lot of wireless devices struggle to get 500mbps with full signal. However if you're just wanting to learn and or experiment then have at it, but I do not believe you will see a benefit.