TS-433 boost performance

English General
21

To get good performance you still need to get the updated NIC driver.
Stable performance if you use the 1 Gbit port but than the max is 1 Gbit.

QTS 5.2.5.3145 still comes with the old driver…

[admin@QNAP /]# dmesg| grep r8125
[ 9.340026] r8125 2.5Gigabit Ethernet driver 9.007.01-NAPI loaded
[ 9.347013] r8125 0002:21:00.0: enabling device (0000 → 0003)
[ 9.369138] r8125: This product is covered by one or more of the following patents: US6,570,884, US6,115,776, and US6,327,625.
[ 9.383975] r8125 Copyright (C) 2021 Realtek NIC software team nicfae@realtek.com
[ 9.952040] r8125 0002:21:00.0 eth1_tmp_56951: renamed from eth1
[ 9.967319] r8125 0002:21:00.0 eth0: renamed from eth1_tmp_56951
[ 91.801433] r8125: eth0: link up
[ 131.665897] r8125: eth0: link down
[ 135.193423] r8125: eth0: link up
[admin@QNAP /]# uname -a
Linux QNAP 5.10.60-qnap #1 SMP Mon May 26 01:05:26 CST 2025 aarch64 GNU/Linux

Check out the old forum for more (it read only.)
https://forum.qnap.com/viewtopic.php?t=175522&start=15

22

If you REALLY need speed maybe try 1x SSD scratch disk and 3x HDD RAID5.

Work off the SSD, when project is done dump it to the RAID5.
Maybe QNAP lets you sync SSD → RAID5 every X minutes/hours.

Really your NAS is too small. 6 bay x86 is where you should be.

23

For unknown reasons QNAP doesn’t want to upgrade the faulty NIC driver. Every time I upgrade and get all kinds of hangs while working with the NAS through SMB. This is only with the 2.5 Gbit port, but that why i bought the NAS…

Tested with QTS 5.2.6.3195

[admin@QNAP /]# dmesg| grep r8125
[ 9.349762] r8125 2.5Gigabit Ethernet driver 9.007.01-NAPI loaded
[ 9.356674] r8125 0002:21:00.0: enabling device (0000 → 0003)
[ 9.378841] r8125: This product is covered by one or more of the following patents: US6,570,884, US6,115,776, and US6,327,625.
[ 9.393673] r8125 Copyright (C) 2021 Realtek NIC software team nicfae@realtek.com
[ 9.963055] r8125 0002:21:00.0 eth1_tmp_56486: renamed from eth1
[ 9.978308] r8125 0002:21:00.0 eth0: renamed from eth1_tmp_56486
[ 91.205639] r8125: eth0: link up
[ 130.398104] r8125: eth0: link down
[ 133.925683] r8125: eth0: link up
[admin@QNAP /]# uname -a
Linux QNAP 5.10.60-qnap #1 SMP Tue Jul 15 00:59:58 CST 2025 aarch64 GNU/Linux

24

Thanks for the advice.
The projects in progress are on local nvme on the client.

I got the NAS working near the maximum speed with the slow disks for my workload so it good. :slight_smile:

(and it works slow for the other workload but thats fine)

But it is a pain that QNAP doesn’t solve the NIC driver issue.

25

Why are you working NAT through SMB? Do you have your NAS open to the internet?

26

Sorry my bad, i typed it wrong. I have update my post. Thanks!

I do not use NAT to access the NAS, all device are connected in the same vlan.

1 Like
27

@SteveKo Uhhh, isn’t 6 months long enough to get an answer on if you guys will update the driver or not?

28

This is also a concern for me. Please do something QNAP…

29

Hi, I’ll follow up with the internal team about this. However, the testing team will likely need to be able to reproduce the issue or get some remote access information from your device.

If possible, I suggest you open another support ticket and send me the ticket number privately. I can then help track the issue for you. Thanks!

30

You shouldn’t need to reproduce anything.

We just need you to get an updated driver from your vendor and that driver to pass whatever internal regression testing you have.

Many users have shown that a newer driver works better.
Can you ship an updated driver that passes your internal test suite?

31

Still no driver update from QNAP for the latest version of my NAS.

QTS 5.2.7.3297

[admin@QNAP /]# dmesg | grep r8125
[ 9.316376] r8125 2.5Gigabit Ethernet driver 9.007.01-NAPI loaded
[ 9.323355] r8125 0002:21:00.0: enabling device (0000 → 0003)
[ 9.346164] r8125: This product is covered by one or more of the following patents: US6,570,884, US6,115,776, and US6,327,625.
[ 9.361000] r8125 Copyright (C) 2021 Realtek NIC software team nicfae@realtek.com
[ 9.927874] r8125 0002:21:00.0 eth1_tmp_56041: renamed from eth1
[ 9.943096] r8125 0002:21:00.0 eth0: renamed from eth1_tmp_56041
[admin@QNAP /]# uname -a
Linux QNAP 5.10.60-qnap #1 SMP Fri Oct 24 11:43:33 CST 2025 aarch64 GNU/Linux

32

I waited long time with this guestion but it seems the nic driver is never getting update by QNAP.

When the I load the new network driver through CLI. The webinterfaces doesn’t show the nic any more. Maybe somebody knows how to resolve this? Than i can add it to the script.

image
image1281×463 59.2 KB

Thanks!

33

I have mentioned this in my blog QNAP TS-433 Network Issues — The Realtek r8125 Driver Nobody Updated · mastori.dev

While raising a ticket within QNAP at the same time.

Will update if Qnap actually chooses to fix this.