What Is Realistic NAS Performance? Are my Expectations Too High?

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Some forum links on networking

10 Gig Networking Primer

Is my Realtek ethernet really that bad?

This resource was originally created by user: jgreco on the TrueNAS Community Forums Archive. Please DM this account or comment in this thread to claim it. One of the longest running issues faced here in the forums may be people who come to these forums, wanting to recycle an old PC into a NAS. In general, this is a bad idea because typical PC hardware isn’t optimized towards the task. However, the issue that most commonly bites people is that a NAS is a network oriented device, and having a lo…

10GBase-T: Best to avoid it if you can

This resource was originally created by user: jgreco on the TrueNAS Community Forums Archive. Please DM this account or comment in this thread to claim it. I recently wrote a resource on high speed network performance tuning, and in it, I commented “Do not try to use copper 10GBase-T”. @Elliot Dierksen asked about this, and I cranked out a pretty comprehensive post on the topic. Here it is in somewhat expanded form. Elliot Dierksen said: I am curious about the “Do not try to use copper 10GBa…