Bittorrent Speeds

Question

I currently own a Dlink DNS323 NAS and I recently upgraded my internet speeds to 50mbit/3mbit (from 7.5/1). I use my NAS for bittorrent with Transmission and before the upgrade I was getting a max steady download speed of 1MB/s, after the upgrade I will see speeds around 1.2MB/s. Just to be sure I downloaded a well seeded torrent on my PC so I know my line is capable of a steady 6MB/s, the same torrent on the NAS gets 1.2-1.6MB/s.

Reason I am asking you guys this is because I'm guessing the problem is that the DNS323 is too low-end of a NAS to handle those download speeds and I want to know if the ReadyNAS NV+ can handle them better. So if any of you guys have internet like mine please let me know what your max bittorrent speeds are. Cheers :D

Scaevola · Answer

Hmmm dns323 is also a 2 bay solution. So it depends on your drives, also using raid 1 versus raid 0.

raid 5 in readnyas allow for stripping& redundancy. It also means you have more throughput as you can write to 3 different sata hds (physically, [possibly one literal partition]).

I have fios I've seen it go to a 1-2 /2 or 3 megs upload but I don't really do it much.

Also having 1gig of ram will help(I upgraded mine). The dns323 may not have that much spare overhead which could slow the speed. Are you running it torrent client directly on that the nas box or are you simply despositing on the files on it.

The write caching features can slow this as well, as can other things.

glight · Answer

Transmission is running on the DNS323, and I have my drives in RAID 0 (I have a separate HDD for backup), they are 2tB 5900RPM (but I don't think that should make big difference). Good point about the ram, there is only 64MB of ram in the DNS323.

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