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ReadyNas 200-4 RN 204 USB 3 transfer speed
I just purchased a ReadyNas RN204, 4 drive NAS I've been reading sas much as I can as quickly as I can and already, I have a couple of questions.
1. I have not been able to find a true transfer speed of the USB 3.0 connections when hookng up a USB 3.0 external HDD. I am installing 4 WD RED 4TB drives and looking at using XRaid. Once it is set up I want to transfer large high deffition files and MKV movie files to the NAS... I will set up separate folders for content.. lets call the Folders 1-4 which are currently on my 8TB External Seagate drive I"ve been using as a back up. It looks like I have 2 options. Connect my external HDD to the 3.0 USB on the back of the drive and drag and drop directly to the NAS... (but, I've heard good and bad on that transfer speed). I usually get 80-110mb/s when I transefer files from my PS to my external drive using a USB 3.0 connection and that is satisfactory. And I'd be happy with the.
The other option would be hook up the External HDD to my desktop USB3.0 and Transfer the Files via Ethernet across my network to the NAS which I think is a waste of bandwitdth just to get started. In that senerio of Computer with USB 3.0 external HDD vi Ethernet what type of transfer is folks seeing? My compouter is a very fast I7 pc 3.2ghz so it's quick. .
2. My other question is backing up the NAS, since there are the 2 USB 3.0 USB connections what about just hooking up 2 8TB drives usb 3.0 external and back up to those drives?
I know I'll have more questions but since I'm getting started I will start with the transfer questions... as the most important right now.
I"m looking forward to having the large NAS, my current set up uses Older 2TB Iomega - Lenovo NAS which has worked well... but I am looking forward to getting to one large NAS for our needs..
Thanks in advance.
Thanks MDGM, that explains it and Yes, I plan to use the Netgear web interface for the direct copy. as I said, once I get my first transfer of all the current files I want to load up on it I will be fine, after that it will only be a few files at a time. I will use the USB 3.0 and the interface to do the transfer and go from there.
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davidk1952 wrote:
1. Connect my external HDD to the 3.0 USB on the back of the drive and drag and drop directly to the NAS...
This will pull over all data to your PC over your network, and then push it back to the USB drive on the NAS. Creating a backup job to transfer the data would be quicker and runs unattended.
Smallnetbuilder.com's review of the RN202 measured about 100 MB/sec, but there are users who have seen a slowdown in performance with NTFS formatting in recent releases.
The other option would be hook up the External HDD to my desktop USB3.0 and Transfer the Files via Ethernet across my network to the NAS which I think is a waste of bandwidth just to get started.
Well, your LAN bandwidth costs you nothing. With gigabit ethernet, the performance should be similar to the backup job above.
davidk1952 wrote:
2. My other question is backing up the NAS, since there are the 2 USB 3.0 USB connections what about just hooking up 2 8TB drives usb 3.0 external and back up to those drives?
That would work. The USB drives likely won't spin down, so you probably will want to disconnect them when they are not in use.
So, am I reading this correctly.. If I plug my External USB 3.0 HDD directly in to the NAS 3.0 port then use the Drag and Drop feature of he web based software that it actually does not do a direct transfer? That seems weird and unefficient for sure.
Sorry about my comment about bandwidth, but I was looking at using the Ethernet connection just as another step. I am thiking of my initial loading of my files to the NAS drives, after that the backups and subsequent loading of additional files will be not as large of a job.
Also, thanks for the answer regarding using an external HDD to back up the system..I"ll look at that as well...
I know this is another question but since I am here as as yet hooked up the drives in the unit my initial thought was to justs use the Netgear X format/raid from what I read I have 4 4TB drives and with the x format I'll have a total of 12 TB drives which should be more than enough for now.
Thanks again for the reply..
davidk1952 wrote:
So, am I reading this correctly.. If I plug my External USB 3.0 HDD directly in to the NAS 3.0 port then use the Drag and Drop feature of he web based software that it actually does not do a direct transfer? That seems weird and unefficient for sure.
The admin web is direct. Windows file explorer and OSX finder are not.
For bulk transfer I'd suggest a backup job instead - it is easy to set up.
davidk1952 wrote:
I know this is another question but since I am here as as yet hooked up the drives in the unit my initial thought was to justs use the Netgear X format/raid from what I read I have 4 4TB drives and with the x format I'll have a total of 12 TB drives which should be more than enough for now.XRAID is the best mode for most users. It will create a standard RAID-5 volume with this disk configuration, and you will have a 12 TB volume.
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