Switching NIC in NAS

[iankearns]

My older NAS box is about to be retired however I need to drag about 16TB of data from it an over the current 100Mb NIC it is painful however the motherboard will take a commonly used 1Gb NIC. If I switch the NIC then am I likely to run into any issues?

 

[Redcoat]

Welcome to the forum!

Does the OS of your "older NAS box" have a driver for the "commonly used 1Gb NIC "? If that's the case, one might imagine that there won't be a problem.

If the OS in question is FreeNAS and you provide the system information listed in the "Forum Rules" (see the masthead tab) it's quite possible that you'll get some detailed relevant advice here.

 

[iankearns]

Welcome to the forum!

Does the OS of your "older NAS box" have a driver for the "commonly used 1Gb NIC "? If that's the case, one might imagine that there won't be a problem.

The NIC is a Realtek chipset on a PCI-e card and the chassis recognises it. When installing an older version of Ubuntu it goes well.

If the OS in question is FreeNAS and you provide the system information listed in the "Forum Rules" (see the masthead tab) it's quite possible that you'll get some detailed relevant advice here.

The build of FreeNAS I am running on that box is FreeNAS-9.2.1.7-RELEASE-x64 (fdbe9a0). The base unit is a HP Compaq dc5800, not the best choice but it was a umber of years old and has 4x4TB drives.

Thanks for the pointers

 

[Redcoat]

Well, Realtek NICs have a very poor track record with FreeBSD and thus FreeNAS because of poor/non-existent drivers. Performance under Ubuntu may not be indicative of that under FreeNAS (which is Unix,-based, not Linux).

You might search here for the specific Realtek model / FreeNAS version and see what turns up.

We frequently see claims of Realteks "working fine until they don't", so you may be lucky, may be not. Intel NICs are the standard go-to choice here.