My NAS is a newly resurrected (was never used - sat on shelf) 2012 vintage Synology DS212 with two new Seagate IronWolf Pro, 4 TB, Enterprise NAS Internal HDDs in a RAID config that will tolerate a single drive failure. The DS212 has been updated to the latest firmware. My LAN is all 2.5Gb but the DS212 only has a 1 Gb port. Bottom line, the actual transfer speed, when copy/pasting a file from my desktop to the NAS, is only typically 30 MBs. A typical already encoded zip backup file is 1.4 TB so it typically takes the better part of a day to complete this transfer. This is much too long. On infrequent occasions some error causes the transfer to end and that, of course, requires starting all over again, usually the next morning.
I want to replace the DS212 with a UGREEN NASync DXP4800 Plus 4-Bay NAS. It not only has a much more powerful CPU it also has 2.5/10 Gb ports although the intervening switch (between my 10 Gb desktop port and NAS) is only 2.5 GB. I would like to get some sort of feel for the actual copy/paste transfer rates I would then achieve. I would also like to understand if replacing the switch with a 10 Gb switch will give some worthwhile bang for the buck (all intervening cables Desktop to NAS are Cat 8).
Also, would replacing the HDDs with SSDs or M.2 drives provide any consequential increase in transfer times?
In other words, 30 Mbs is painfully slow. I don't not mind spending the money for new hardware if that will provide a substantial improvement. The upgrade cost is too much for only an incremental improvement. It would be helpful to have some real-world experience by others to better make this decision.
I want to replace the DS212 with a UGREEN NASync DXP4800 Plus 4-Bay NAS. It not only has a much more powerful CPU it also has 2.5/10 Gb ports although the intervening switch (between my 10 Gb desktop port and NAS) is only 2.5 GB. I would like to get some sort of feel for the actual copy/paste transfer rates I would then achieve. I would also like to understand if replacing the switch with a 10 Gb switch will give some worthwhile bang for the buck (all intervening cables Desktop to NAS are Cat 8).
Also, would replacing the HDDs with SSDs or M.2 drives provide any consequential increase in transfer times?
In other words, 30 Mbs is painfully slow. I don't not mind spending the money for new hardware if that will provide a substantial improvement. The upgrade cost is too much for only an incremental improvement. It would be helpful to have some real-world experience by others to better make this decision.
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