Hey,
in the office I have FreeNAS with 6 x 4Tb drives in RaidZ2, and it is used as an NFS share for backups as well as TimeMachine for a total of up to 5 computers.
The NAS itself provides decent performance and reaches 80-90 Mbps in most backups, over 1Gbps LAN.
The problem and the future problem are that we can barely run 2 backups at the same time and we are about to be 10-15 people on total in the near future.
I was considering:
will any of these actually allow 2 (or more) computers create backups at the same time without chocking both the network and the NAS...?
in the office I have FreeNAS with 6 x 4Tb drives in RaidZ2, and it is used as an NFS share for backups as well as TimeMachine for a total of up to 5 computers.
The NAS itself provides decent performance and reaches 80-90 Mbps in most backups, over 1Gbps LAN.
The problem and the future problem are that we can barely run 2 backups at the same time and we are about to be 10-15 people on total in the near future.
I was considering:
- adding another vdev of 6 x 4Tb - will that "double" the throughput on the writes as well?
- LACP x2 or even x4 from the switch to the server, to allow more throughput.
will any of these actually allow 2 (or more) computers create backups at the same time without chocking both the network and the NAS...?