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ReadyNAS 1000S
512 MB memory
4 x Seagate ST3250823AS 250 GB drives [232]
RAID Level 5, 4 disks
Jumbo frames disabled
Journaling disabled
Fast CIFS writes enabled

HP 2.6GHz P4 PC
Windows XP Pro
1GB memory
Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet
Flow control and TCP offload options enabled

Cisco 2960 48port switch

MB/s Write 0.4
MB/s Read 0

doen't make sense at all!
but it is very slow and the test took a long time, much longer then writing a 1GB file to a drive

NV+ Setup:
Model: ReadyNAS NV+ [X-RAID]
Firmware: RAIDiator 4.00c1-p2-T19 [1.00a037]
Memory: 1024 MB [2.5-3-3-7]
Ch 1 : Seagate ST3500630NS [465 GB] 461 GB allocated
Ch 2 : Seagate ST3500630NS [465 GB] 461 GB allocated
Ch 3 : Seagate ST3500630NS [465 GB] 461 GB allocated

- Jumbo Frames enabled
- journalling disabled
- fast CIFS writes enabled

Network / PC Setup:
- Asus switches GigaX1108N and GigaX1105N in between
- PC Intel Core2 QUAD 6600, 2x1GB DDR2 RAM PC6400, 2x WD160GB SATA300 Striping Mode
- LAN onboard Marvell Yukon 88E8056 PCI-E
- Windows XP Enterprise Edition SP2 Inegrated

PC Settings:
- Disabled Sygate Personal Firewall
- Disabled Comodo BOclean Anti Malware
- Disabled Symantec AV
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Test description:
For READ test copied 1023 MB VOB-file from NAS to PC.
FOR WRITE test copied 1023 MB VOB-file from PC to NAS.
Both tests done with Total Commander and with CIFS protocol (Windows file sharing).

Test results:

Jumbo Disabled on PC:
- READ 194 Mbit/s
- WRITE 102 Mbit/s

Jumbo 4088 bytes on PC:
- READ 199 Mbit/s
- WRITE 127 Mbit/s

Jumbo 9014 bytes on PC:
- READ 204 Mbit/s
- WRITE 126 Mbit/s

Did my best, this is the max I can get. In the past I also discovered that uninstalling the firewall from the PC gave more throughput compared to disabling it, surprisingly. But, because I definately want to have protection, I leave it like this.

ReadyNAS NV+ Setup:
Model: ReadyNAS NV+ [X-RAID]
Firmware: RAIDiator 4.00c1-p1 [1.00a037]
Memory: 1024 MB [2.5-3-3-7]
RAID Config: X-RAID (Expandable RAID), 4 disks, 6% of 1272 GB used
RAID Disks: 4 x Seagate ST3500630AS [465 GB]; 461 GB allocated
File Protocols: CIFS

Jumbo Frames: Enabled (box checked)
Write Caching: Enabled (Automatic when UPS Present)
Disable full data journaling: Enabled (box checked)
Disable journaling: Disabled (box not checked)
Optimize for OS X: Disabled (box not checked)
Enable fast CIFS writes: Disabled (box not checked)
Enabled fast USB disk writes: Enabled (box checked)
Opportunistic Locking Enabled (box checked; all shares)

Network Setup:
Netgear GS108 Switch
1’ CAT 6 run to the ReadyNAS NV+
100’ CAT 6 run to the PC used for testing
2nd GS108, 50’ to 100’ runs to two other PCs, 3 DIRECTV TiVos and other devices

Relevant extracts from a component list I made up while building the testing PC a few months ago:
ABIT IP35 Pro LGA 775 Intel P35 AXT Intel Motherboard
- Includes onboard Realtek RTL8169/8110 Family Gigabit Ethernet NIC (NDIS6.0)
- 2nd NIC Disabled
Intel Q6600 quad cpu (NOT over clocked during this testing)
Critical Ballistix Tracer 4GB 240 pin SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2-8500 Dual Channel)
- 2 x 2 x 1GB Matched Pairs
Windows Vista Ultimate
NOD32 AV V3 installed and enabled
Comodo FW V3 installed and enabled
Comodo BOClean Anti-Malware installed and enabled

IOMeter 256k Read/Write Setup:
Configured as recommended in Hans Solo posts except Maximum Disk Size = 8192000

IO Meter Results for PC to an identical Seagate ST3500630AS drive installed internally (SATA II)
For reference, note that NV+ runs SATA II drives at SATA I drive rates; NTFS Formatting
Reads: 67.39 MB/sec Max; 63.33 MB/sec Average
Writes: 63.77 MB/sec Max; 62.74 MB/sec Average

IO Meter Results for NV+ Share (10 read runs & 10 write runs)
Reads: 34.75 MB/sec Max; 30.81 MB/sec Average
Writes: 19.15 MB/sec Max; 17.49 MB/sec Average

IO Meter Results for PC to USB Drive Attached to NV+ (10 read runs & 10 write runs)
USB Drive is a Seagate ST3500641CB-RK (500 MB); NTFS Formatting
Reads: 8.72 MB/sec Max; 8.64 MB/sec Average
Writes: 4.46 MB/sec Max; 4.14 MB/sec Average

Backup results from NV+ Share to USB Drive Attached to NV+ (NTFS format; 5 runs)
Scheduled for AM; should be no other NV+ activity
Full backups of 17,103 files, 1211 folders, 42,649 GB Total, 2.9GB per file average
Mostly MP3 files and photos
2.24 MB/sec Max (5 hours, 17 Min); 2.06 MB/sec Average (5 hours, 45 min)
I’ll test backup times on large video files when I have a chance

Here's a comparison between XP and Vista machines on otherwise identical network/NAS:

NV+ Setup:
Model: ReadyNAS NV+ [X-RAID]
Firmware: RAIDiator 4.00c1-p2-T45 [1.00a037]
Memory: 1024 MB [2.5-3-3-7]
Volume C: Online, X-RAID (Expandable RAID), 3 disks
Ch 1 : Seagate ST3500630NS [465 GB] 461 GB allocated
Ch 2 : Seagate ST3500630NS [465 GB] 461 GB allocated
Ch 3 : Seagate ST3500630NS [465 GB] 461 GB allocated
- Jumbo Frames disabled
- journalling disabled
- fast CIFS writes enabled
- Oplocks enabled on shares
- VistaBoost on

Network Setup:
- Netgear GS108 gigabit switch
- Cat 5e

Old PC #1 test: :)
- Pentium 4 @ 2.8 GHz
- 1024MB RAM
- Gigabit NIC jumbo off
- Win XP Pro
- iometer test as per yoh-dah specification
Write: 22MB/s
Read: 33MB/s
CPU utilisation during tests: 40%

New PC #2 test: :(
- Intel quad core Q6600 @ 2.8 GHz
- 2048 MB RAM
- Gigabit NIC jumbo off
- Win Vista Home Premium SP0
- iometer test as per yoh-dah specification
Write: 11.5MB/s (9.8 without VistaBoost)
Read: 6.5MB/s (6.1 without VistaBoost)
CPU utilisation during tests: 0-1%

Thanks Microsoft - I await Vista SP1.

According to the Iometer template I get :

Desktop - P4 3,4Ghz, 2GB ram, Gbit
Read : 19,3MB/s * should be higher
Write : 22,7MB/s * ~satisfactory

Laptop - PM 1.8Mhz, 512MB ram, 100Mbit
Read : 40 something
Write : 35++

- Strange numbers for a 100Mbit laptop connection indeed, and stays similar even if I increase the sectors to 8M :?

** Readynas NV+, almsot factory default T45 firmware, no jumboframes, no afp, domain security mode, 4x300GB seagate AS, Xraid

Lars wrote:
... Laptop - PM 1.8Mhz, 512MB ram, 100Mbit Read : 40 something Write : 35++ - Strange numbers for a 100Mbit laptop connection indeed, and stays similar even if I increase the sectors to 8M :?

I found that Iometer incorrectly calculates the speed when the CPU clock isn't running at a fixed rate. You might want to try Iometer again with the laptop set at "Maximum Performance" or some other setting where the CPU doesn't slow down to reduce heat/battery drain.

-Scott

Ofcourse.. I was tired and didn't remember this issue :wink:

With cpu locked at maximum I got more normal results, though I find it strange I'm consistently seeing higer write than read speeds + 11MB/s is too high on a 100Mbit connection.

Laptop - PM 1.8Mhz, 512MB ram, 100Mbit
Read : 4.56 MB/s
Write : 11.02 MB/s

System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.5.1 (9B18)
Physical RAM 4096 MB
Model MacBookPro3,1
Disk Test 27.73
Sequential 16.24
Uncached Write 6.23 3.83 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 54.88 31.05 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 16.81 4.92 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 123.33 61.98 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 94.76
Uncached Write 36.72 3.89 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 95.45 30.56 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 665.43 4.72 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 333.58 61.90 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Expanded from my previous post here: /forum/viewtopic.php?t=15033

NAS: NV+, 1GB RAM, 3x500GB disk, X-RAID, Jumbo frames enabled

Network: Netgear GigE switch, w/ Jumbo frame support

Client: AMD X2 4200+ (dual core), running Fedora Core 6 (2.6.22.2-61.fc6), intel GigE nic, mtu=7936

exportopts: insecure,insecure_locks,rw,no_root_squash,async

mountopts: proto=tcp,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,intr,bg

From my linux box:

(write test - default 1k block size)
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/file/on/nas count=200000
200000+0 records in
200000+0 records out
102400000 bytes (102MB) copied, 15.2132 seconds, 6.7 MB/s

testing with different block sizes (4k, 8k, 16k, 256k) yields a bit of difference - up to about 8MB/s with 4k blocks.

(read test - default 1k block size)
$ dd if=/path/to/file/on/nas of=/dev/null
200000+0 records in
200000+0 records out
102400000 bytes (102MB) copied, 7.81847 seconds, 13.1 MB/s

playing with different block sizes (bs=#) here (4k, 16k) is tricky - if you re-read the same file, it's cached and you can see upwards of 500MB/sec. If I re-create the file each time, I've seen 15MB/s best case read perf using 4k blocks.

If I ssh onto the device and perform the same tests against the local file system, I get only marginal improvement on write speed - 6.8MB/s write.

Again, results differ with block sizes - best I've found is 18MB/s write w/ 4k blocks.

Read against the local file system is significantly improved, at 31.8MB/s, or 104MB/s with 4k blocks.

When I've got a bit of time, I'm going to see about getting IOMeter working with the manager running on a windows box and dynamo (the test process) on my linux box.

NV+ RND4000
4 x Seagate ST1000340NS (ES2 32mb) 1tb Hard Disk in X-RAID
All journaling disabled
Fast writes on

Dell XPS M1210 (laptop)
Intel T2500 2.00ghz dual core cpu
2 gigs ram
Hitachi 100gb Hard Disk
Windows XP SP2

Linksys WRT54G (802.11g / 100mb Fast Ethernet)
Cat 5 cabling (for hard-wired test)

Via Fast Ethernet (100mb):
Write MBps: 10.24904
Read MBps: 8.317377

Via 802.11g (Laptop sitting 4 feet from router):
Write MBps: 2.60752
Read MBps: 2.396405