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NV+ Transfer rates
GDay All, I have just installed a RND4000 V3 NV+ onto my network and I'm a little disappointed with the transfer speeds. At best I get an average of 7.2mb/s up and down which is dismal compared to ...
BikeHelmet, I did try turning on Jumbo Frames, but that had no effect on the transfer rates at all. Full Journaling is off, Journaling is on. I have turned off Optimise for OS/X also, but that has made no difference either.
I do have an MGE Nova 1100 AVR UPS and it is on the compatibility list, but I don't have the NAS plugged into it, not enough receptacles on the UPS for the NAS. I have the Main Computer and 2 Monitors plugged into the UPS so that I am able to shut down all programs before shutting down the main computer if the power fails.
When transferring a lot of small files, getting an accurate transfer rate is difficult because there is a lot of fluctuation in actual speeds. I use Sysmetrix to gauge the throughput of the network and it reports the average transfer speed. But as you and Stephen have both pointed out, my transfer rates are even more dismal than I thought.
I started uploading 1898 files totalling 1.51TB at 5:30am Saturday, it is now 7:45am Sunday and so far only 1522 files have been transferred totalling 1218 GB - 546MB for the system files already on the NAS before I started the file transfer.
It's not hard to see why I am disappointed in the transfer speeds I am getting with this particular NAS, especially when you consider that I can achieve, and regularly do get 90MB/s transfer speeds between my Main computer upstairs and the second computer downstairs, which indicates that there is nothing wrong with my overall network setup.
With all the settings that I have enabled/disabled by now I would have thought that I would have stumbled upon the magic combination that would allow this NAS to transfer at better speeds than I am seeing.
I may have to contact Netgear and see what their take is on this matter, they were quite helpful when I contacted them about the 3TB drive issue I had. That was my fault though, I was looking at the wrong compat. list when I bought the drives. Luckily, I already had 4 2TB drives on hand so it was simply a matter of swapping them for the 3TB drives I had bought for this NAS.
I do have an MGE Nova 1100 AVR UPS and it is on the compatibility list, but I don't have the NAS plugged into it, not enough receptacles on the UPS for the NAS. I have the Main Computer and 2 Monitors plugged into the UPS so that I am able to shut down all programs before shutting down the main computer if the power fails.
When transferring a lot of small files, getting an accurate transfer rate is difficult because there is a lot of fluctuation in actual speeds. I use Sysmetrix to gauge the throughput of the network and it reports the average transfer speed. But as you and Stephen have both pointed out, my transfer rates are even more dismal than I thought.
I started uploading 1898 files totalling 1.51TB at 5:30am Saturday, it is now 7:45am Sunday and so far only 1522 files have been transferred totalling 1218 GB - 546MB for the system files already on the NAS before I started the file transfer.
It's not hard to see why I am disappointed in the transfer speeds I am getting with this particular NAS, especially when you consider that I can achieve, and regularly do get 90MB/s transfer speeds between my Main computer upstairs and the second computer downstairs, which indicates that there is nothing wrong with my overall network setup.
With all the settings that I have enabled/disabled by now I would have thought that I would have stumbled upon the magic combination that would allow this NAS to transfer at better speeds than I am seeing.
I may have to contact Netgear and see what their take is on this matter, they were quite helpful when I contacted them about the 3TB drive issue I had. That was my fault though, I was looking at the wrong compat. list when I bought the drives. Luckily, I already had 4 2TB drives on hand so it was simply a matter of swapping them for the 3TB drives I had bought for this NAS.
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