I just repurposed an old PC into a NAS and got unraid 7.0 up and running. I'm mainly using it for redundancy and working with photo/video editing on my macstudio, then moving it to the NAS to live and occasionally access. 

 

The NAS has 1Gb ethernet on the motherboard and I got a TP-link 2.5GbE NIC. On the Mac side I have the 10Gb ethernet that I want to use for wired Internet (my router sucks and the network is slow ,300Mpbs) and I have a thunderbolt-to-2.5Gb ethernet. 

 

I've attached a layout for two options I'm trying to establish, I'm fine with either but maybe the bottom one is easier?

 

Anyways I very new and green to networking and I cannot get the 2.5Gb connection to work. 

 

I setup unraid with DHCP, it gave the address 192.168.0.22

When I got the NIC, I set eth0 (the 1Gb mobo connection) to static. 

Set the NIC interface (What I think is eth1) to static and gave it 192.168.11.22

Then on the Mac side, I see the 2.5 LAN but it wasn't connected. I gave it 192.169.11.20 and subnet mask 255.255.255.0 which should be the same right? It came up connected but I don't think there is any communication over the 2.5 wire.

 

I don't know how to test to check but I tried to set up the first layout (no internet for NAS) and my Mac couldn't see it. I also started transferring 1 tb of photos to a share and timed the transfer and it was averaging 12Mb/s and got worse when I streamed videos (indicating it was transferring over the network).

 

On one hand I'm glad I got the NAS running and repurposed an old gaming PC, but on the other I need to dump my 4tb of photos/videos and then start working from it. So I want to get this 2.5Gb connection up and running.

 

Thanks,

 

Even 1GB will be faster than single HDDs can be written. Unraid parity array would be even slower. How were you planning to configure your storage on the NAS?

41 minutes ago, trurl said:

Even 1GB will be faster than single HDDs can be written. Unraid parity array would be even slower. How were you planning to configure your storage on the NAS?

I write to cache pool of SSDs

Can you ping the 2.5GbE NIC from the Mac side?

On 1/20/2025 at 2:49 AM, JorgeB said:

Can you ping the 2.5GbE NIC from the Mac side?

Hi Jorge,

 

Yes I am able to ping the IPv4 address I gave to the 2.5Gb NIC

 

First 2 pings are to my NAS IP and the second 2 pings are to the NIC

I got it working. Thanks everyone who helped!

Hey Andrew, this is exactly what I'm working on now. Your photo diagram looks almost identical to my setup. Can you easily share how you got it working?