[Marco Mircoli]

The location is our video post production studio located in center Milan (ITALY) –

[Marco Mircoli]

I forgot to mention that since the Covid period, we rarely went to the studio. Therefore, the conditions are practically like new

[Marco Mircoli]

I’ve followed this instructions from Netgear site:

How do I set up a LAG between a Smart Managed Pro Switch and a QNAP NAS?

Link aggregation (LAG) between two network devices allows your devices to treat multiple Ethernet links as if they were a single link to increase bandwidth or provide fault tolerance. For more information about link aggregation, see What are link aggregation and LACP and how can I use them in my network?

This article explains how to set up link aggregation between a Smart Managed Pro Switch and a QNAP NAS (QTS version 4.3.3.0209).

Set up LAG on the Smart Managed Pro switch.
Open a web browser on a computer that is connected to the same network as your switch or is connected to the switch directly through an Ethernet cable.
Enter your switch’s IP address in the address bar of your web browser, or use a saved bookmark to access your switch.
Enter your administrator password and press Enter.
The default password is password.
The home page displays.
Select Switching – LAG – Basic – LAG Configuration.
Select the checkbox beside the LAG that you want to set up.
If LAG ID 1 is not already configured, select LAG ID 1.
Ensure Admin Mode is set to Enable.
Set LAG Type to LACP.
Click Apply.
Click LAG Membership.
In the LAG ID dropdown menu, choose the LAG ID that you configured in step 5.
Click each port that you want to make a member of the LAG.
Click Apply.

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But NOTHING, poor performance if compared to the single 10GBE connection
Any advice?
Thanks.

[Marco Mircoli]

Hi, this is an interesting discussion.
Is it safe to connect the storage online?
What are the precaution user can do to limitate the danger?
Thanks.

[Marco Mircoli]

Hello, trying to resume here how to config the qnap:
– CREATE a Static Volume with all the drives (7200RPM), RAID 6, no hot spare
– CREATE one or more users
– CREATE TWO DIFFERENT NETWORKS – one for internet and a SECOND NETWORK WITH STATIC IP ADDRESSES AND MTU 9000 for your video editing shared storage network. if your WiFi or wired internet is 10.1.10.xxx, make your 10G network static at 192.168.2.xxx
– disable SMB signing on your Macs
– create one or more shared folder, that’s up to you. These are simply “shared folders” with QNAP. You can have multiple separate shared folders, and assigned permissions for R/W access to each folder, or you can just have one mount and trust your staff.
– mount the folder on the mac, using Qfinder Pro
– ssd cache is not useful, don’t waste your money
– Let’s edit!

MAY I HAVE MISSED SOMETHING?

[Marco Mircoli]

Hello Bob,
thanks for the reply.
Does it makes any difference between the d-1531 and d-1521?

Is it important for the use we would do?

Thanks in advance.
Best.
S.

[Marco Mircoli]

plex app on qnap is talking about hardware encoding…
and it probably uses ffmpeg for it.
Have you give it a view?
Thanks.
S.

[Marco Mircoli]

HTanks for the reply.

Talking about the backup unit, I was wondering if it is possible something like that:

the backup unit is OFF
@ 00.00 a.m. the BU power on
it update the backup and then is switch off itself

OR

the backup unit is always on
it constantly check when the main unit working load is under a threshold, and it start to update the backup, it the working load became over the shreshold, the backup unit pause the backup.

OR

the backup unit is always on
it is connected via 10gbe but configured as 1gbe (to limit the bandwidth)
the unit work 7/24 to replicate the main unit but it stole in the worst case just 100 megabyte per seconds of bandwidth.

I have another question:
is it possible to use the backup unit as plex server? (while it is doing backup)

Thanks in advance.
Best.
S.

[Marco Mircoli]

Thank you Bob,
In the 2nd part of my post I was talking about the online BACKUP unit.
I think the backup unit has to be different for the main unit.

I think the backup unit has to be reliable 1st.
The speed is not necessary, isn’t it?
OK raid 6 with 2 redundant drives.

Not considering the speed and performance, but just safety,
Raid 6 composed by 4 drives (12Tb each) + 2 parity drives
is more secure than
Raid 6 composed by 6 drives (8Tb each)+ 2 parity drives
isn’t it?

Any advise is appreciated.
Thanks.
S.

[Marco Mircoli]

Thank you Bob
now we really think we are going to move to centralized storage, we don’t know if something new is arriving from qnap (more powerful or complete)
We think to go with:
QNAP TS1685 (for the main unit)
what I don’t like of TS1685 is that it hasn’t 2 power units. I wonder it in few monts qnap will go with something similar to QNAP TS1685 BUT with redundant power.

…and we would use something like TVS-872XT or TVS-EC1080+ or TS-1635AX as the backup system

what I like from TVS-EC1080+ is that is compact and have 10 storage drives, but I ask you an advice about it.

What is the vanilla number of hard drives best for a backup system (where is not important speed but realibility)
I think the minimum number of drives ammissible for a raid 10 (with 2 spare drives).
What do you think?

I think I could connect the backup system via 1gbe so I would never saturate the main unit bandwidth, and I could mirror the main unit in real time, what do you think about it?

Thanks in advance.
Best!