Thought of a problem: I only pulled 300MB/s in initial test of 10G to my NAS (direct from PC) . Theoretical is 1.2GB/s right? NAS is 5 disk RAID5 spinning rust which interfaces to NAS expansion through USB3. so, this has to be the issue right?

Fix: cut out the USB for slight gain, add SSD cache for medium gain, or switch to all SSD to hit theoretical… Right?

Needed more ports for core switch so decided to mess with Cisco. Not because I like or respect that company or need their features but rather to get real world experience with it. This has only reinforced my hatred of them, but it’s currently functional

Also needed to get 10G up, so went with microtik. This is also a curious little system, but at least it wasn’t $10,000 MSRP (Cisco came from eBay). Still need to configure vlans here: thinking I’ll just keep RouterOS but make it not route.