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How to optimize the file transfer speed between USB external hard drive and wired-LAN PC on R7000.
Hi everyone,
Here is my configuration:
- I have R7000, updated to latest firmware.
- I connect my PC to router using Cat5e cable.
- I connect my USB 3.0 External Hard Drive (Western Digital 6TB) to USB 3.0 port on R7000.
My question:
- I got file transfer speed about 30-33 MB/s. What should I do to optimize the transfer speed?
- Along with Gigabit network card, I also have Killer NIC onboard, with the speed of 2.4 Gbps. I have disabled it since I don’t need it, do you think that if I use this Killer NIC instead of Gigabit NIC, it will improve the file transfer speed substantially?
PhamHuyBao wrote:
I think that I will leave everything as it is and accept that the transfer speed of 30-33 MB/s is the best that I can get with R7000.
TrustedReview measured the R7000's USB speed at 28-29 MB/sec, which is approximately what you are getting. http://www.trustedreviews.com/netgear-nighthawk-ac1900-802-11ac-router-review-setup-performance-page-2
The R9000 has 100 MB/s read speed and about 55 MB/sec write speed. https://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wireless/wireless-reviews/33046-netgear-r9000-nighthawk-x10-smart-wifi-router-reviewed?showall=&start=2
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Firstly trash the cat5 and replace by a Cat6.
Did you try to run it on your PC?
keep me posted.
Honestly, I don't think cable Cat5e (not Cat5) is the problem as Cat5e support Gigabit speed.
May I ask what optimized speed should I expect in my case?
Cat6 has less noise than cat5e.
Can you plug the drive directly to your PC just to make sure of what to expect?
PhamHuyBao wrote:- I got file transfer speed about 30-33 MB/s. What should I do to optimize the transfer speed?
- Along with Gigabit network card, I also have Killer NIC onboard, with the speed of 2.4 Gbps. I have disabled it since I don’t need it, do you think that if I use this Killer NIC instead of Gigabit NIC, it will improve the file transfer speed substantially?
Not much you and me can do.
A lot of stuff Netgear could do, should do, but refusing for years:
- support Jumbo Frames
- Update to a current modern SAMBA, including a current cifs.ko.
- support SMB 3.0 as available in SAMBA 4.x
OK, I'm comparing the Nighthawk X10- however there is a lot of headroom on the routers with less performant processors, too - a NAS similar to the R9000 (X10), AL-212 dual-core 1.7 GHz Cortex-A15 (about "half" of the X10), can read >200 MB/s (>170 MB/s with AES256 volume encyption) and write >165 MB/s (>145 MB/s with AES256 volume encyption) on average HDD set (RAID0 or RAID1) on single large multi GB files. Or something in the range of 70..80 MB/s over the non-exclusively used X10 5 GHz WLAN.
So you mean I don't need to do anything here. 30 - 33 MB/s is the best that I can get with R7000 already?
Changing cable from Cat5e to Cat6 and/or switch to use Killer NIC instead of normal Gigabit NIC won't make any difference?
Killer NIC is essentially a 1 GbE interface, tuned for lower latency when I remember my friend (a Dell sales manager) information correctly. No rocket science effects on the throughput.
Reasonable CAT5e cabling works even with 10 GbE - on a shorter reach. Unless the CAT5e cables are bad, there should not be a performance difference at all on Gigabit Ethernet when updating to CAT6 (or CAT7).
