SamUK

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I have just bought a Netgear ReadyNas with a single 2TB HDD.

I have connected this to a 1GB HP Network switch.
I copied a 4GB MKV file from my machine also connected to the 1GB switch and i am getting near 12MB per second.

I was expecting near 60MB\sec on a 1GB network.

I disabled the Journal option on the Netgear and now i am getting near 17MB \ sec.

I have run some tests with a cross over, though only with the MKV file and i got the same.


I spoke to netgear they were not very helpfull - and said that is all i will get.


Any help appreciated.

Sam

BlkKnight

what's your local disk copy speed?

andys

have you set the network cards to auto negoitate with the switch?

SamUK

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lcoal disk copy from share to share is slow maybe 2MB\sec
it is set to auto and is ruining at 1GB.



will do some more tests with cross over cable when i get home tonight.

SamUK

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found this

http://home.bott.ca/webserver/?p=363

i think i need to send back the duo and look for another solution. the NVX is spose to be faster but costs £500!

ALi-B

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I don't think you'll get 60mb/sec with that. 30MB/sec is a more realistic figure and thats all you'll get TBH as the NAS's CPU won't give you any more. Different transfer protocols (FTP, Rsync etc) will give better speed depending on how much CPU overhead it requires.

Even so, it looks like you need to do some network tweeking as I get around 11MB/sec on a 100MB network (it was on 1 GB, until I moved the NAS to its quieter location). The readyNAS forums have plenty of info and tweeks that should help with that.

Luminous

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Agreed with Ali, the limiting factor will be the NAS drive. I have a Buffalo drive, which is regarded as being one of the fastest NAS drives out there. I can only manage about 25-28Mb/s over a sustained large file copy.

Copying lots of smaller files will of course be much, much slower.

Also take into account how you are copying the files. Most backup software will never make full use of your network capacity (not home user stuff anyway). Most of the backup software I run tops out at 10Mb/s to the NAS drive. Its only windows explorer and imaging software that make full use of the extra capacity for me.

SamUK

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am looking to buy this..from what i have read its loot faster

http://www.netgear.co.uk/rndx400e.php

jowl

I just bought a Synology DS410 and installed 3 x 2tb HDD's using RAID 5.

I'm getting around 11 or 12Mb/sec on 10/100 ethernet.

When I get my gigabit ports back up and running, I'm hoping to hit somewhere around 30Mb. I used to have a FreeNas Raid5 system running on a Core 2 Duo machine where I'd get 35-45Mb/sec

jaytc2003

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hmmm similar problem for me albeit diff hardware. I have a Icybox NAS with gb ethernet, connected to a netgear dgn3500 gb router. I get less than 10mb via ethernet (usually about 6mbs) and via wireless I get about 3mbs. All pcs connected via ethernet are gb/s and are set to auto negotiate (did try the 1000 mbs option as well but no difference)

Doesnt appear to be any settings in the icybox to change the setting there. Its streams blu ray perfectly though via ethernet