Share your successful ReadyNAS hardware setup

Mergatroid wrote:
As I said, transferring from PC to PC always gives 60MB/s because the PCs and hard drives are faster than the network is.

Um, most drives aren't faster then the network in real life applications, even tho theoretical numbers say they should be well past the network in performance. The reason to why this is true, might not belong in this thread tho. Max speeds on a TCP transfer is in the area of 114MB/s, and UDP, 116MB/s, but neither your drives, or your CPU/NIC/motherboard can handle the transfers.

Mergatroid wrote:
Most ~ $200 NASs that I tested get very poor transfer rates.

For the same amount of money you get a old P4, which in a few years will have cost you a fair bit more in power then a $200 NAS. There is a simple reason for why they perform as they do. Some of it is to be cheap to build and sell, or nobody would buy one and put at home, but mainly, it's due to the simple fact that home users most the time don't really need gigabit performance, and a cheap electricity bill is a better goal, then a blazing fast experience that you'll only care about 5 times a year. If speeds are a concern, you build a PC based system, or buy a "real" NAS, and not something targeted at the small home office, or end user.

Do i agree with you, in that it's sad that my NV+ isn't at least maxing out in reads what my single internal drive can write? Sure. On the other hand i knew this was the case when i bought my drives, so i bought slower drives, with the low power use in mind. And 5 year warranty. By the time it's out of warranty, and "to slow" to be useful, a new unit will have better performance at a similar price. And hopefully, i can still use the drives...
B!