Post your performance results

@TorpedoT
First Post... Welcome.. And a nice contribution.

If you may have just installed your ReadyNasPro and may not have much data on it, have you considered running in Dual Redundancy mode. You will only end up with 7.2TB free but once you read the statistics on the failure rate of any raid5 array and the chance of a second failure during rebuild, you may wish you were running XRaid Dual Redundancy (raid6 expandable).

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ReadyNAS Pro Pioneer running 4.2.12 final firmware with 4x Seagate 1.5TB and 1x WD 2TB EARS HD (with idle timer properly adjusted)

Writes from 1-10MB/s
Reads from 6-30MB/s

2 RNDP6350 one in production and one in spare/backup

PRO BE Setup:
Enable Disk Write Cache (both)
Disable Full Data Journaling (both)
NIC's teamed in Round-Robin mode (both)
2*WD20EARS Drives (backup)
4*WD2002FYPS (production)
RAIDiator 4.2.13 (both)
X-RAID2 Configuration (5553 GB Usable Space) (production)
X-RAID2 Configuration (1883 GB Usable Space) (backup)
Memory: 3968 MB [4-5-5-18 DDR2] Kingston (both)
HP Gb switch
mount options: nfsvers=3,tcp,bg,intr,rsize=32768,wsize=32768

NFS v3 transfers
Read/Write Speed via rsync, between the two PRO BE: ~80 MB/sec (sustained,burst up to 103.4 MB/sec)

/jg

Hi All!

At least I got my little precious ReadyNAS NV+ RND4000 with 4 pcs. WD20EARS harddisks.
I already have 2 older WD20EARS-00S8B1 with 512 bytes sector,
and got 2 new WD20EARS-00MVWB0 with 4kbytes sector.

The unit had 4.1.6. firmware originaly, but when I put one 00MVWB0 it was fine, successfuly installed the disk.
Maybe this drive has better back-compatibility, or it doesn't matter if its alone.

I updated the firmware to 4.1.7T49 just for sure. :)
After this I loaded all of drives and did Factory Default with the hole button.
9,5 hours and the job finished.

I did the measure based on local forum with IOMeter, and I got very nice results:
Read in MB/sec: 30.99
Write in MB/sec: 23.26

But if I mount the volume on my PC, I get only half performance,
around 16-18 MB/sec read/write bandwidth via Total Commander copy or drag'n'drop copy.
Every settings are default.
Is it a normal thing with this unit?

When I enabled the Jumbo Frame support in NAS and in my Ethernet, I got worse performance, 2-4 MB/sec read/write. :o
That says to me maybe the Router/Switch does not support the Jumbo Frames, right?

Systems:
OS - Windows 7 Ultimate x64
PC - Onboard ( Asus P5Q Pro ) Atheros AR8121 Gigabit Ethernet with Jumbo Frame support
NAS - RND4000 with 4.1.7.T49 firmware
Router - TP-LINK TL-WR1043ND with 4-port Gigabit Switch and "N" Wireless ( I think it doesn't support Jumbo Frames )


With respect do you have any idea how to improve CIFS performance?
Any suggestions, tricks? :)

Thank you so much!
Darq.
ps: Im really sorry for my english :lol:

Readynas DUO:
JumboFrames ON
Enable Disk Write Cache (both)
Disable Full Data Journaling (both)
2x500 HDD
Windows 7 x64 Bit
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Write: 35MB/s
Read: 26MB/s

Now here's a funny thing - I'm getting Pro Pioneer Read speeds at 1/3 of the Write speeds !

IOmeter results :

Read - 30Mbps; Response Time 9ms
Write - 90Mbps; Response Time 3ms

Config :

PC with Intel PCIe GB NIC (no jumbo frames). Win7 Pro 32bit. Kaspersky not running. NetMeter.
Cat6 cable
Netgear GS108t
Cat6 cable
Netgear GS108t
Cat6 cable
Pro Pioneer running 4.2.11 (to prevent unit power on problems)

(Possibility to team 2 connections from the Pro to the GS108t - but I'd rather not at the moment)

Thoughts ?

PS Here's some more info :

Pro drives : 4x Seagate St320000542AS
PC drive : Samsung 64GB MLC SSD

Might want to open a thread to troubleshoot that. Take a look at http://home.bott.ca/webserver/?p=363

Homebuild PC
Windows 7 64-Bit, Intel i860 3GHz quad core with hyperthreading, 8GB RAM, Realtek 1GB NIC with 7K Jumbo Frames

NAS
ReadyNAS NV with 1GB RAM, X-RAID (4x1TB Samsung HD103SJ), RAIDiator 4.1.6 (16K Blocks), 37% of 2776GB used
7K Jumbo Frames, all Journalling disabled, no Fast CIFS writes (as Fast CIFS Writes screw up Thunderbird)

Switch
SMCGS8 GigE EZ-Switch, CAT5e cabling

IOMeter 2006.07.27
Standard config, 256K sequential read/write, 1GB test file over CIFS, 2 minutes per run.

Results
Read: 40.23MB/s, 6.21ms average response, 4.38% CPU utilization
Write: 37.64MB/s, 6.63ms average response. 2.71% CPU utilization

Happy with that. :)


Yellow for READ, red for WRITE

I tried the iometer method and scored the following results:

with jumboframes enabled:
Read: 44,5 MB/s
Write: 31,5 MB/s

with jumboframes disabled:
Read: 43,7 MB/s
Write: 56,7 MB/s :D

Wired Gigabit configuration, cat6 ethernet cables.
ReadyNAS Duo.


One thing I just don't understand.
When I upload or download files, using drag and drop in the windows environment, results are:

with jumboframes enabled:
Read: 19,3 MB/s :cry:
Write: 6,75 MB/s :shock:

with jumboframes disabled:
Read: 28,6 MB/s
Write: 17,1 MB/s

Why the different results of iometer and drag/drop method ??? :-?

Setup is an RNDU4000, D-Link 2208 8-port gig switch, & cat 6 cables. Traffic is NFS to/from a faster storage device. Jumbo frames are not enabled. Disks in the Netgear are the WD20EARS, properly aligned for a 4k sector. Array is setup in RAID 5, and the data is large files (BD rips). Transfer rate is an average of hundreds of gigs of transfer each.

Read: 64.9 Mb/s
Write: 46.7 Mb/s

I am rather impressed!