Average transfer speed (read and write) plummeted after replacing hard drives

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Retired_Member wrote:

Hi EstivalG , I can confirm the 40MB/s transfer speed. I get that from my retired RN104 with two volumes (RAID0 and RAID1), which I'm using as a guineapig for trying things out.

 

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I decided to benchmark my own RN102, and I discovered that my speed depends on the SMB protocol version.  I tweaked the the max protocol with SMBPlus, and tested the results with NasTester 1.7.  The measured read speeds are:

• SMB 1.0: 41 MB/sec
• SMB 2.1: 70 MB/sec
• SMB 3.1: 63 MB/sec

When I reported my 70 MB/sec results a couple of years back, I was still running Windows 7 (SMB 2.1) so the results haven't changed with newer firmware.

The drop off with SMB 3.1 isn't that surprising - I suspect Windows 10 is using transport encryption, and the RN102 has no hardware support for that.

The slow speed with SMB 1 was a bit surprising to me.

Test Details:

The RN102 is running 6.9.5, and the volume is XRAID (two 1 TB Ironwolf disks).  Bit-Rot protection (CoW) is off on the share; Volume Quota is enabled.   Strict sync is disabled, and SMB 3 transport encryption is set to "enabled".  Antivirus is off.   SMBPlus is the only app running on the NAS.

The PC is an older desktop running Windows 10; the PC is using 10 gigabit ethernet, but of course the NAS is using just gigabit.  The PC hardrive is an SSD.  

The NAStester results are:

SMB 1.0

Running a 400MB file write on \\10.0.0.13\Documents 5 times...
Iteration 1: 39.43 MB/sec
Iteration 2: 39.64 MB/sec
Iteration 3: 40.24 MB/sec
Iteration 4: 38.87 MB/sec
Iteration 5: 39.67 MB/sec
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Average (W): 39.57 MB/sec
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Running a 400MB file read on \\10.0.0.13\Documents 5 times...
Iteration 1: 40.36 MB/sec
Iteration 2: 40.71 MB/sec
Iteration 3: 39.82 MB/sec
Iteration 4: 41.65 MB/sec
Iteration 5: 40.67 MB/sec
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Average (R): 40.64 MB/sec

SMB 2.1

Running a 400MB file write on \\10.0.0.13\Documents 5 times...
Iteration 1:     68.44 MB/sec
Iteration 2:     67.45 MB/sec
Iteration 3:     66.73 MB/sec
Iteration 4:     66.87 MB/sec
Iteration 5:     68.45 MB/sec
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Average (W):     67.59 MB/sec
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Running a 400MB file read on \\10.0.0.13\Documents 5 times...
Iteration 1:     75.39 MB/sec
Iteration 2:     67.61 MB/sec
Iteration 3:     67.51 MB/sec
Iteration 4:     68.58 MB/sec
Iteration 5:     69.27 MB/sec
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Average (R):     69.67 MB/sec

SMB 3.1

Running a 400MB file write on \\10.0.0.13\Documents 5 times...
Iteration 1: 69.35 MB/sec
Iteration 2: 68.94 MB/sec
Iteration 3: 69.08 MB/sec
Iteration 4: 67.34 MB/sec
Iteration 5: 69.00 MB/sec
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Average (W): 68.74 MB/sec
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Running a 400MB file read on \\10.0.0.13\Documents 5 times...
Iteration 1: 63.87 MB/sec
Iteration 2: 63.06 MB/sec
Iteration 3: 61.22 MB/sec
Iteration 4: 63.89 MB/sec
Iteration 5: 64.10 MB/sec
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Average (R): 63.23 MB/sec