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Ready NAS 104 Crashes when changing Network setting (creating new bond) ...
I was following this thread describing my issue on RN 104 - any attempt of creating ethernet bond (even latest OS 6.10.3) leads to crash displaying something 'putname+14' on the display. The NAS hang...
Did new test,
PC file transfer via:
1) WiFi 300 Mbps -> guessing WiFi is half-duplex -> so 300 / 2 / 8 gives me teoretical speed up to 18,75 MBps - I was hitting around 14MBps so that was pretty close to maximum I guess.
2) Gigabit Ethernet (yes I checked it is detected on router and NAS as 1GB and not 10/100Mbs) -> then I was getting around 30MBps using wired transfer. It is still not the max reported (70MBs) but because of the crash while setting the ethernet bond NAS is now re-syncing several TBs so it will take a couple of days before I can run 2nd test via wired connection.
calaba wrote:
1) WiFi 300 Mbps -> guessing WiFi is half-duplex -> so 300 / 2 / 8 gives me teoretical speed up to 18,75 MBps - I was hitting around 14MBps so that was pretty close to maximum I guess.
It's not half duplex. It's true that only one device (including the router) can send or receive at a time. But if you are only downloading (and no other devices are using the WiFi), you can use the full link in the download direction. Likewise for uploading.
But real-world throughput is always a lot less than the link speed. ~100 megabits is reasonable for a 2.4 ghz wifi connection.
calaba wrote:
2) Gigabit Ethernet (yes I checked it is detected on router and NAS as 1GB and not 10/100Mbs) -> then I was getting around 30MBps using wired transfer. It is still not the max reported (70MBs) but because of the crash while setting the ethernet bond NAS is now re-syncing several TBs so it will take a couple of days before I can run 2nd test via wired connection.
Test it again after the sync is finished. If your volume is very old (especially if you started with 6.1.x firmware), you might consider doing a factory reset and rebuilding the NAS (restoring data from backup). You will see a speed increase if you do that.
Hi, well I do have the NAS few years but had some factory reset 3 years ago - do not remember what was the version at that time. Doing factory reset will require backing up my 5TB somewhere, will take a while. Is there any chance that OS reinstall without destroying the data volume would help with increased speed ?? Or the only way is to get newest OS + fresh new volume and restore the 5TB from some backup ... ?
calaba wrote:
Is there any chance that OS reinstall without destroying the data volume would help with increased speed ??
No it won't.
If you have a spare disk, you could try powering down and removing all your disks (labeling by slot), and then do a factory install with the spare. Then see what speed you get. RAID will make some difference here, but this test would still give you some idea.
After that, just power down the NAS, and restore the disks to the proper slots.
Ok, I tried to test the Factory default on new disks. Found 2 spare - 3.5" notebook HDD 350 GB and one 500GB SDD. Did the fresh install (Factory default) but changed the default X-RAID volume to RAID-1 (not sure what is the performance impact of this).
After that the rough transfer speeds went to:
1) 1GB Ethernet Cat 6 cable - Write avg. around 45MB/s, Read avg. 30MB/s
2) Wifi 5Ghz - 300Mbps - NETGEAR WNDR4300v2 - (no other traffic on wifi) - write avg. around 15MB/s and read avg. around 12MB/s
Interesting that the read is slower than write. Maybe the RAID-1 thing ? On my RAID-5 I am getting probably same read/write speed on simple shares (no bit rot protection/encryption).
What is strange that I am still not closing the 70MB/s transfer speed via cable. In peek - for write - I was getting 50MB/s but then it dropped to 40-45MB/s.
Maybe the disks I used ?? Maybe the RAID-1 ? Maybe the NETGEAR WNDR4300v2 router in a way .... ?
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