Post your performance results

loquacious wrote:
No matter what I try I cannot get tranfer speeds better than 11MB/s. I have changed cables, even disabled options that were recommended to be disabled to improve speed. The network status on my NAS frontview page says it is "Online / 1000 Mbit / full duplex but still only getting 11Mb / second transfer speeds from my internal hard drives to the NAS.

I have to say that, unfortunately, the industry is VERY SLOPPY about performance/speed where networking is concerned.

If the syntax of your abbreviations is correct, then you are getting a good rate.

MB and Mb are two completely different things, but constantly used interchangeably. They're not, never were. Microsoft is terrible about this and their bad habits have become the worlds. Performace in networking is ALWAYS measured in megabits, except by some companies such as Microsoft, who measures it in megabytes. Cheifly, because microsoft has always been sloppy to bad at networking.

There is no accurate conversion between Mb & MB because the first is basic measure of transmission (layer 1) and the other is the result from the perspective of an application (layer 7). To transfer 1 MB of data does NOT take 8Mb. And different protocols and apps will make that ratio vary. But because there is no right answer, we typically use say 1MB is equal to 8Mb. It is a guesstimate that gets you somewhere in the ballpark, but always short of the real Mb number. How short--you cant know.

So the 11MB rate you mention would be more than 88Mb on the wire. Over 60Mb there are always other factors that are probably constraining transfers. Are both client and server running at 1000 or 100? Are they on the same switch? If you are measuring a transfer of files what is the write speeds of the destination as write is always slower than read. Competing tasks? etc.