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Differing performance Laptop (Win10Pro) + Desktop (Win7Pro)
I'm experiencing different performance levels on my Laptop (Win 10 Pro, connected via USB3 Ethernet adapter) and Desktop (Win 7 Pro, onboard NIC - Z68X-UD5-B3 motherboard : LAN = Realtek RTL8111E chip (10/100/1000 Mbit))
ReadyNAS 104, X-RAID 5, OS 6.4.2
Laptop NAS Performance tester 1.7
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NAS performance tester 1.7 http://www.808.dk/?nastester
Running warmup...
Running a 400MB file write on Y: 5 times...
Iteration 1: 52.85 MB/sec
Iteration 2: 52.11 MB/sec
Iteration 3: 52.43 MB/sec
Iteration 4: 50.37 MB/sec
Iteration 5: 51.47 MB/sec
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Average (W): 51.85 MB/sec
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Running a 400MB file read on Y: 5 times...
Iteration 1: 57.51 MB/sec
Iteration 2: 55.13 MB/sec
Iteration 3: 57.13 MB/sec
Iteration 4: 59.38 MB/sec
Iteration 5: 56.92 MB/sec
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Average (R): 57.22 MB/sec
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Desktop
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NAS performance tester 1.7 http://www.808.dk/?nastester
Running warmup...
Running a 400MB file write on Z: 5 times...
Iteration 1: 40.64 MB/sec
Iteration 2: 40.96 MB/sec
Iteration 3: 40.70 MB/sec
Iteration 4: 40.06 MB/sec
Iteration 5: 39.75 MB/sec
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Average (W): 40.42 MB/sec
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Running a 400MB file read on Z: 5 times...
Iteration 1: 48.38 MB/sec
Iteration 2: 49.40 MB/sec
Iteration 3: 47.66 MB/sec
Iteration 4: 48.29 MB/sec
Iteration 5: 48.29 MB/sec
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Average (R): 48.40 MB/sec
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ReadyNAS 104, Laptop + desktop on 9K MTU
Cat 5 cable all around.
Testing via mapped network drive on both.
Network adapter settings all the same except a few that aren't on the other :
Desktop
energy efficient ethernet - enabled
green ethernet - enabled
interrupt moderation - enabled
receive buffers - 512
receive side scaling - enabled
shutdown wake-on-lan - enabled
transmit buffers - 128
Laptop
vlan id - not present
wake on link change - enabled
wake on magic packet - enabled
I don't know enough about net hardware to know what these really mean.
Have recently re-installed Windows7 on the desktop - but the desktop performance has always been similar - although via drag+drop does seem to have slowed - Windows shows 30MB rather than 40MB/s it did before.
Have swapped over the cables going to laptop to desktop + re-run - same result on the desktop.
Could it just be hardware ? I find it hard to believe since speeds are well below Gb.
Some OS difference ?
One of the above settings ?
TIA
A late update to this.
Just updated my desktop to Windows 10 (just before the free upgrade cut-off) - had a few issues post upgrade (network iffy - needed to put in IP/DNS manually) and USB3 chipset drivers - but after setting jump frames to 9K - the desktop now gets the same performance as the laptop i.e. ~50MB/s
So likely a OS/network driver type issue.
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A late update to this.
Just updated my desktop to Windows 10 (just before the free upgrade cut-off) - had a few issues post upgrade (network iffy - needed to put in IP/DNS manually) and USB3 chipset drivers - but after setting jump frames to 9K - the desktop now gets the same performance as the laptop i.e. ~50MB/s
So likely a OS/network driver type issue.
What MTU sizes are set up on the NAS and the two PCs? (Look at the "Jumbo Packet" setting on the PCs?)
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