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Post your performance results
I thought it might be interesting to see what kind of performance everyone is getting with IO Meter so that we can compare what we're getting. So I thought we could all post our results in this thread...
I learned a lot from the forum and I would like to help other people as well.
I have been frustrated on the performance of my NV+ for a long time (transferring 4.5GB file from windows to NAS at 7MB/s) and finally I took some serious time and money to find out why.
NV+ w/ 1GB RAM and use default XRAID and 4 2TB seagate LP drive with 32MB cache on HCL.
Here is what I did for troubleshooting:
replaced switch from Trendnet green gigabit switch to Cisco SG200-8. I checked the cisco switch web gui and there is no error on both ports to the NAS and windows PC.
Same slow 7MB/sec transfer
replaced cables from cat 5e to cat 6, verify cisco switch no error on both ports.
same slow 7MB/sec transfer
One of IT guy I work with told me to try update the NIC driver to the latest.
Since I am using onboard NIC, so I checked with Asus web site and it showed that I am using their latest NIC driver, but looking at the date, they haven't come out a new driver for a long time. I went ahead and found out the chip of the NIC (realtek) and download the latest driver from realtek website. I installed the drivers and test it again.
the result: ~22MB/sec
try to download and install the latest NIC driver for your PC from the chip manufacture instead of the motherboard manufacture !
I have been frustrated on the performance of my NV+ for a long time (transferring 4.5GB file from windows to NAS at 7MB/s) and finally I took some serious time and money to find out why.
NV+ w/ 1GB RAM and use default XRAID and 4 2TB seagate LP drive with 32MB cache on HCL.
Here is what I did for troubleshooting:
replaced switch from Trendnet green gigabit switch to Cisco SG200-8. I checked the cisco switch web gui and there is no error on both ports to the NAS and windows PC.
Same slow 7MB/sec transfer
replaced cables from cat 5e to cat 6, verify cisco switch no error on both ports.
same slow 7MB/sec transfer
One of IT guy I work with told me to try update the NIC driver to the latest.
Since I am using onboard NIC, so I checked with Asus web site and it showed that I am using their latest NIC driver, but looking at the date, they haven't come out a new driver for a long time. I went ahead and found out the chip of the NIC (realtek) and download the latest driver from realtek website. I installed the drivers and test it again.
the result: ~22MB/sec
try to download and install the latest NIC driver for your PC from the chip manufacture instead of the motherboard manufacture !
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