PRO 6 poor read performance??

Thanks for your comments.

mdgm wrote:
StephenB wrote: forgot to post the logged Bonnie output - DD Result:59.2MB/s. As indicated in the article ReadyNAS Performance Expectations that's pretty much what you'd expect from a single hard drive.

I've read that article, and didn't see any information related to the number of hard drives installed in the NAS.

I see the "60 MB/s disk I/O of most desktop-class PCs" reference (though that number is clearly dated) - is that the number you had in mind? Connecting this particular drive (Seagate ST31500341AS) via e-sata directly to the PC, formating it as NTFS, and running Netgear's iometer script resulted in about 122 MB\s performance for both reads and writes. This is consistent with reviews on the drive (tomshardware.com for instance).

Anyway, if there is something else on how performance varies with the number of hard drives, maybe you can give me a quote to search on or something; as I'm not seeing it.

mdgm wrote:
What size file are you testing with? You should test with a file that is at least twice as large as the amount of RAM in your PC.

So far I am running Netgear's iometer.icf with no modifications. This uses a 1 GB file. I tried a drop-and-drag test with an 8 GB file, and got essentially the same results. I think Bonnie defaults to a 3 GB file, I simply ran the add-on as installed.

The PCs I've used for testing have 2-4 GB of RAM, the NAS has the 1 GB it was shipped with.