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ReadyNAS 214 Slow Transfer Speeds (Over Network and Direct-Connect)
I just purchased a ReadyNAS 214. I followed the quick start guide: installed two Seagate Ironwolf 3TB hard drives, connected Ethernet and power cable, powered on the unit, and went to http://read...
If you are using Windows file sharing to access the data, you should be seeing ~110 megabytes per second for large file transfers on a wired gigabit ethernet connection.
How are you transfering the data?
Nastester is one easy way to measure SMB performance: http://www.808.dk/?code-csharp-nas-performance
I've connected the unit with a direct connection using these Netgear instructions.
- Used a straight cable to from the unit to my computer NIC's ethernet port
- Used RAIDar to detect the unit
- Configured the unit with the following static IP:
Address. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.101
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Router . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
- Configured my computer's ethernet adapter with the following static IP:
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.101
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
Using RAIDar, it successully opens Window Explorer to 192.168.1.100 and I can see all of the default shares.
I'm transferring data using Windows Explorer; grabbed a 1.6GB video file from my computer and copied it to \\192.168.1.100\Videos, looked at the Performance tab in Task Manager and watched "Send" speed detect 4 to 5 Mbps.
EDIT: I tried running a benchmark with Nastester but the transfer speeds were so slow with a direct connection, it would take forever to send a 400 MB file, I cancelled it and didn't let it finish running.
Is there a typo or did you set the same IP address on both NAS and computer?
Oops! That was a copy and paste typo. The unit's eth0 adapter/port is configured with static IP address 192.168.1.100.
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