Post your performance results

Since I now have three generations of ReadyNAS, I thought I would post my test results. One key point is that for this system I found that disabling Jumbo Framing on all of the devices, gave the best results. I also found that setting the PC's NIC to maximize network throughput vs. CPU utilization made a significant improvement in overall performance. The cost of this operation resulted in CPU utilization increasing from 10% to 30-44% during testing.

-------------------------------------------------- NAS0: ReadyNAS X6 RAIDiator 4.1.6 [1.00a147] 512 MB [2.0-2-2-6] X-RAID, 4 disks, 86% of 1368 GB used Jounaling Enabled, Fast CIFS writes, Fast USB writes Static IP, 1000-BaseT, Jumbo Frames Disabled CIFS, HTTPS, Rsync Enabled -------------------------------------------------- NAS1: ReadyNAS NV+ [X-RAID] RAIDiator 4.1.6 [1.00a043] 1024 MB [2.5-3-3-7] X-RAID, 4 disks, 45% of 2776 GB used Jounaling Enabled, Fast CIFS writes, Fast USB writes Static IP, 1000-BaseT, Jumbo Frames Disabled CIFS, HTTPS, Rsync Enabled -------------------------------------------------- NAS2: ReadyNAS Pro Pioneer Edition [X-RAID2] RAIDiator 4.2.5 1024 MB [4-5-5-15 DDR2] X-RAID2, 6 disks, 27% of 4611 GB used Jounaling Enabled, Fast CIFS writes, Fast USB writes Static IP, 1000-BaseT, Jumbo Frames Disabled CIFS, NFS, HTTPS, Rsync Enabled -------------------------------------------------- PC ASUS A8N-SLI Premium - AMD64 X2 2.4GHz 2 GB [2.0-2-2-5] Windows XP Pro - SP3 NTFS, RAID 0+1 - 4 disks, 50% of 465 GB used Static IP, 1000-BaseT, Jumbo Frames Disabled -------------------------------------------------- Network Switches: SMC GS16 16 ports - 10/100/1000T w/ JF 9K Support -------------------------------------------------- PC<=GS16=>NAS0: Read Throughput: 27MBytes/sec Write Througput: 17MBytes/sec -------------------------------------------------- PC<=GS16=>NAS1: Read Throughput: 37MBytes/sec Write Througput: 23MBytes/sec -------------------------------------------------- PC<=GS16=>NAS2: Read Throughput: 68 MBytes/sec Write Througput: 88 MBytes/sec --------------------------------------------------