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DataMover iSCSI performance results for the ReadyNas NVX product can be found at www.moojit.com under the Reviews section.

Copernicus wrote:
Are people with Windows 7 having the same speed issues I am? Running an IO meter will max my transfer speeds at about 8 MB/s both write and read. Everything seems to be running at gigabit speeds between my computer to the nas. When I switch to XP sp3 I have no issues reaching 29 MB/s. Is this a Windows 7 issues or what? Readynas NV+ 4.1.6 firmware

was having the issue with a new build. ended up being Malwarebytes Anti-Malware program holding the speeds down. Turned it off and my speeds went from 5-8MBs to 24-25MBs. Hope this helps.

Write MBps
24.814101
Read MBps
38.39565

Firmware: RAIDiator 4.1.5 [1.00a043]
Memory: 1024 MB

fastwrites enabled, jumbo frames off

ReadyNAS X6 (Rev. A) 1GB memory
3x Samsung HD501J 500MB drives
Netgear GS108 switch
Jumbo Frames Enabled
Cat 5e cables

IOMeter results
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Write MBps
28.15229
Read MBps
35.90566

I have just ordered some Cat 6 cables to replace the 5e cables I'm currently using, so I will re-run the tests and posts the results when that swap out has been completed.

ReadyNAS Duo
Seagate HD 1TB
Netgear WNDR3700 Router
Jumbo Frames Disabled
ReadyNas MTU: 1500
Wireless NIC: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN, 1492 MTU

IOMeter results for Wireless, connected on 5ghz wireless-N
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Write MBps
11
Read MBps
10

Realtime download via wireless is between 8-10 MB/s

Are these good results?

Model: ReadyNAS Duo [X-RAID]
Firmware: RAIDiator 4.1.6 [1.00a043]
Memory: 1024 MB [2.5-3-3-7]

Disks: WD green 1tb (WD10EADS)
Jumbo packets off
journaling disabled
APC back-UPS ES 700

win 7 x64 client robocopy using real file transfer:
write: 22.5mb/s
read: 40mb/s

ReadyNAS NV+, 256MB
2x Seagate 1TB drives ST31000528AS Firmware: CC38 (stock)
2x Seagate 1.5TB drives ST31500341AS Firmware: SD37
All performance options are on the default settings except as stated below

Netgear GS116 switch
CAT 5e/6 cable

Test System:
Windows 7 64-bit
Zotac 9300-ITX motherboard, 2GB RAM
NVidia nForce ethernet
Intel Q8200 Quad-Core CPU @ 2.33GHz

MTU=1500
29.49 MB/s Read
11.718 MB/s Write

MTU=1492
41.74 MB/s Read
22.48 MB/s Write

MTU=Jumbo (NX+) MTU=4k (Win 7)
41.21 MB/s Read
27.24 MB/s Write

Machine 2:
iMac 2.8GHz C2D, 4GB RAM
OS X 10.6.3

MTU=Jumbo on NX+ and iMac
Read = 37.5 MB/s (via FTP and Cyberduck)
Write = 140.0 MB/s (via FTP and Cyberduck)

APF
Read = 53.47 MB/s, 51.81 MB/s (yes, I don't believe it either, so I repeated it)
Write = 25.15 MB/s

CIFS
Read = 16.67 MB/s
Write = 5.41 MB/s

An interesting note is that once the CIFS copy is finished, the NV+ refuses to disconnect from the share and then becomes unresponsive for about 10 minutes. It eventually recovers, so the lesson here is no CIFS on the Macs. I'm now trying to determine if the slowdown is due to the Mac or the NV+.

EDIT:
Slowdown is some interaction between the NV+ and the Mac. The Windows 7 machine is still as peppy as ever. I went back to enabling jumbo frames and everything is good now as long as I avoid CIFS on the Macs.

TEST 1:

ReadyNas 3200 JumboFrames off
4GB Ram
12 x WDRE3 (1TB) X-Raid

1x Procurve 2510G
Proliant dl380 G6 (6 x 300 g.b. sas drives) 36 G.B Ram
Esx Version 4

To test speed i ran vmkfstools -i /vmfs/....vmkd /vmfs/../readynas/destination.vmdk


NFS Write: 115 MB/s (15 GB Vmdk file)
NFS Read 90 MB/s (15 GB vmdk file)


TEST 2:
Same hardware setup as above.

XP virtual machine with 3 G.B. Ram.
mounted nfs volume and used fastcopy to test.

CIFS write 70 MB/sec ( 3 G.B. iso file)
CIFS Read 68 MB/sec ( 3 G.B. iso file)

I'm almost ashamed..

Model: ReadyNAS Pro Pioneer Edition [X-RAID2] Dual Redundancy
Serial: 1YA59CR?x?x?x
Firmware: RAIDiator 4.2.9
Memory: 1024 MB [4-5-5-15 DDR2]
IP address 1: 192.168.1.111
IP address 2: Not Connected
Volume C: Online, X-RAID2, 6 disks, 85% of 7413 GB used

I am running 6 x WD20EARS with jumbo frames and the jumbo does make a difference.

I'm feeling that running XRaid2 with 2 x redundancy might be significantly slower than single redundancy.

I didn't really research as I needed double redundancy and that was that as my budget was limited....
Hmmmm its hard to say limited budget and $3400 in the same breath,
but u get what i mean. RNPP 8 x WD20EARS HDD

copying a 7.79 GB (8,370,782,376 bytes) file to the NAS took 5:55 secs or ~=22 MB/s
and 1:40 secs from the NAS to the Win7 PC so 77.9MB/sec i.e.~=7790MB/100secs

22.0 MB/s write to NAS
77.9 MB/s read from NAS

@berkut

berkut wrote:

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. -------------------------------------------------- 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<=GS16=>NAS2: Read Throughput: 68 MBytes/sec Write Througput: 88 MBytes/sec --------------------------------------------------

More information please?
Such as are you in Dual Redundancy mode? What file copy method did you use? CIFS copy? 8Gb file?
If i were you i would be very careful and not update the firmware until you have had a good read as 4.2.8 was the last version without pausing and dropout issues.

EDIT: added my Slow performance.

I'm going to take an fing hammer to this Readynas Duo sooner or later.

Copying a 1.2GB set of files over WIFI from it on Windows 7 and it states it will take over 30mins.

Every since I got this its had piss poor performance. I think it's time to ditch it and steer clear or Netgear.