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It will work fine. Guessing 10G is not the only NIC on the NAS. If so, you can use a dedicated subnet range to connect direct to your PC, and use another NIC on both PC and the NAS to connect to the rest of the network to get network connectivity towards the Internet for example.Hello, since my PC and NAS both have 10GbE, I thought of directly connecting them via Cat6 ethernet cable for the fastest connection without using a switch. However, somebody mentioned that doing so could cause some stability issues. Is that really true?
Never happened to me, but I'm sure other will comment on this as well.In practice, how likely do such stability issues happen?
The problem with the original question is that you only mention the 10 GbE interfaces and don't say what others you have on the devices. So a DS1522+ with a 10 GbE port will still have four 1 GbE interfaces, so you can set the default gateway to be on the 1 GbE and have this connected to your router. Likewise the PC could have a default interface, be it a 1 GbE (or other wired) or WiFi. Then connecting the PC and NAS 10-10 GbE will [should] auto-assign IPs or you can manually set them using a spare subnet.
This is similar to how I have my new and old Mac Minis networked. Default interfaces are their internal Ethernet ports connected to my LAN, and between them I have ThunderBolt Ethernet which is 5 Gbps. You just have to ensure that the correct interfaces are default so that's where outbound request get sent for destinations that are outside of the connected subnets.
Direct connection or over a 10G switch will work and you will be able to get 1GB/s transfers easly. The question now, is do you want that kind of setup or not? If its something that works for you, go for it. Will it work, it will, is that the intended method how to use a NAS? Well, not really, (talking about a DAS scenario), but it can work if you will utilize it using multiple NIC.Sorry for the lack of information.
Actually is it worth to spend more to buy a 10G switch? Before buying the NAS, I bought a Silicon Mac to set up a SMB server. I connected it directly to a PC via their respective 10GbE port. I was able to transfer lots of large files from the PC to a SSD DAS. I want that kind of speed when transferring files from the PC to the NAS. Some mentioned that Silicon Mac have SMB issue but I was not aware of it. I had some other issues and returned it to buy a NAS.
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