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Hawk321
Apprentice
Oct 12, 2021

RN 104 very slow - 15 MBit/s

Hi,   my read and write speed on the RN104 is very slow, around 15 Mbit/s. Well the hdds are encrypted which will lead to a high CPU usage but neverthless it should be faster.   https://www.downl...
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StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Oct 12, 2021
Hawk321 wrote:
I have Gigabit ethernet in my apartment and that’s the speed the copy manager from Win10 shows. Sometimes it even drops below 10 MBit/s

So the win10 system is not using wifi?

 

I've seen some posts here that say using disk encryption in the RN104 will cut the throughput in half, but it looks like you are fetting less than that.  What disks are you using? 

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    StephenB
    Guru - Experienced User
    Oct 13, 2021
    Hawk321 wrote:

    I use Western Digital  8 TB disks chucked from WD MyBooks, should be relabeled  WD reds.

     

    WD80EDAZ

    WD80EZAZ

     

    A bit of an unknown then.

     

    Do you have a spare CMR drive you could do a test install on?

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