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If I connect another LAN port of the Qnap Server to the switch , will the data transfer speed increase ?

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I have installed a QNAP TS-1283XU-RP server which backs up our virtual server using VEEAM and File servers using backup assist software.

This Qnap server is located on one of the COMS cabinet-1 that is away from the server room.

The switch in the Coms cabinet  is connected through a fibre optics cable connection  to the core switch in the server room.
The edge switch is 100/1 Gig switch

The Qnap server has 4x1GbE Lan ports . At the moment only one LAN port from the Qnap is connected  to the switch and on this LAN card gui network speed says 1Gbps.

If I connect another LAN port of the Qnap to the switch , will the data transfer speed increase ?

Please suggest and any help will be great
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In general:
If you connect the other network connections to your switch and setup LACP you will open multiple paths.
You would still only be able to transmit at 1GB but 4 separate connections could transmit at the same time each using 1 1Gbps.
So technically you have more throughput capability but you will only see a benefit if you are generating connections from different source / target.
So for example qnap to server 1 could use 1 1Gbps and qnap to server 2 could use another 1Gbps.
However Qnap to server 1 wouldn't use more than 1.

There are some complexities that the above does not cover but hope it helps you have a better understanding.
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As a rule, if the device has four ports we plug all four ports in.

DiskSpd is a Microsoft utility that can be used to test the setup with one cable, then two, three, and finally four.

Does the Q-Nap support some sort of load balancing or teaming of the ports? If it does, then it's quite likely that the four ports would support four incoming job streams.