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RAX120 router - SSD file transfer slow with 5gbe ethernet connection
Hello everyone, I recently purchased 1. RAX120 AX6000 router (connected to CM1200 cable modem with monoprice CAT8 ethernet cable) 2. 15 feet Monoprice CAT8 ethernet cable connects the RAX120 ro...
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I tested large file transfer on network with another ssd and top speeds are same around 150mb/sec and there was no speed slow down on the way.
I realized that speed slow down problem is related with my current ssd. I tested my current ssd with a direct connection to my computer and shows the same gradual slow down.
As a result, this router is able to provide around 150mb/sec with fastest hard drives without any geadual slow down. If anybody experience gradual slow down during large file transfer, I recommend them to check their hard drives.
avtella wrote:
You need to realize this is a router and not a high end NAS as it has an ARM Cortex A53 CPU cores and not a high power desktop Intel/AMD x86 or mobile CPU/Chipset.
You can state that one too often.
mesencephalon hasn't fallen into that trap, but a lot of people seem to think that a USB device can deliver Ethernet performance, even though a decent NAS box can cost as much as a router, even without an y drives installed.
To clarify, if netgear provides two usb 3.0 ports which are capable of 5gbe data speed and 5gbe ethernet port at the same time, I would expect this router to provide that full speed with sufficient cpu power.
I just accept this as marketing falsification for this router then since the speed is not near usb 3.0, even though it is advertised as a usb 3.0 port.
I purchased this router due to existence of 5gbe port and wifi6 features along with usb 3.0 ports on it.
I just accept this as marketing falsification for this router then since the speed is not near usb 3.0, even though it is advertised as a usb 3.0 port.
I purchased this router due to existence of 5gbe port and wifi6 features along with usb 3.0 ports on it.
- USB 2.0 tops out at real world (not the theoretical) speeds of 35-40 MB/s so with a USB 3.0 port you are still getting much faster than that.
No router on the market from any vendor claims you will reach peak USB 3.0 throughput. Also you assuming that because it has a 5Gbps port for some reason USB storage speed should hit close to 5Gbps. Thing is no vendor associates USB capability to wired speeds. If you want faster speeds you need to connect a good NAS to the 5Gbps port, which is pretty much what is expected. They never made any false claims in this regard.- My NAS has a 10Gbps port, doesn’t mean I’ll get anywhere near that, but still much faster than just gigabit. And the manufacturer for example never claimed I’ll get anywhere near 8-9 Gigabits.
- Lastly I’d like to point out that the RAX120’s storage performance eats out even many low to mid range dedicated NASes and also beats out almost any other consumer oriented router that I’ve seen.
- One other question in this regard,
I noticed another problem with large file transfer to the router connected ssd with my set up today.
When file transfer (one 20gb file) into the ssd starts, I get the 120-130mb/sec speed but after a while the speed gradually decreases to 25-30 mb/sec. This does not happen when the ssd is directly connected to my computer.
Is it related to less efficient cpu of the router compared to computer cpu?
