June 13, 201016 yr Guys, I just got my unraid server but need to copy a bunch of stuff over to it before next week and it's slow as hell going through my router. HOW can I connect the unraid STRAIGHT into my computer? Speak slowly and use small words please. I'm really bad at this AND understanding written instructions. THanks George
June 13, 201016 yr All you need is a crossover cable as opposed to a straight thru ethernet cable. Just connect the two boxes ethernet port with th cable and make sure you have fixed (static) IP addresses assigned. You should be able to buy an ethernet crossover cable with a quick web search
June 13, 201016 yr However... unless you only have a 100Mb/s router and BOTH the PC and the unRAID server have 1000Mb/s ethernet ports, you'll not see any difference when bypassing the router. The router, if matched to the speed of the source and destination LAN interfaces, does not slow things down (or, at least not enough for you to notice) It just routes the packets to their eventual destination. You will be limited by the LAN speed or speed at which you can write to the unRAID array regardless of what you do. With the best hardware and fastest disks you might get 40MB/s. At that rate, it will take 25 seconds per Gigabyte. To transfer the contents of a 2TB drive would take 2000 * 25 seconds = 50,000 seconds or roughly 15 hours. Since most computers can't do half that speed, figure on 15 hours per TB.
June 13, 201016 yr If your NICs are Gigabit, then you don't really need a crossover cable -- they will correctly detect and work with any cable. To achieve Gigabit speeds though, the cable needs to be either CAT5e or CAT6.
June 13, 201016 yr Author Ok, I have a 6 or 5e cable and I'm pretty sure that both cards are gigabit and according to my transfer software, I barely even get 5 megs per second I've decided to slow down and not rush this computer rebuild which IS going to screw me up but I don't see this happening in the next few days anyway. Too much stuff that has to get done. Also, I've talked to others about a gigabit switch. Will that do the trick too? THanks George
June 13, 201016 yr Also, I've talked to others about a gigabit switch. Will that do the trick too? What trick? Adding anything in between (switch) can NOT possibly be any faster than a direct wire connection. (Not that it will be any noticeably slower if it is a good switch -- they give you near wire speeds)
June 13, 201016 yr check your duplex settings on the desktop. I've seen some really screwed up transfer speeds when duplex speeds were unhappy with each other.
June 14, 201016 yr Author Ok, where is this duplex thing and what do I set it to? Does this apply to the unraid too? Anyway, got a gigabit switch and managed to get it set up and it seems to be a good bit faster now. I'll let you know when I finish some transfers so that I can get the average speed (it lets me know at the end) for transfers. Before I was barely getting 5mb per second George
June 14, 201016 yr Author Alright, hooked it up through a gigabit switch and now I'm getting three times the speed roughly. A much needed improvement. Far short of the 55 megs a second but hell, this is fine for me as I do stuff overnight so to speak. I got up from around 5 megs to close to 17 megs. Definitely worth the price of the switch. So, where IS that duplex thingie...?
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