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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.
-Are you seeing 1 gpbs speeds on the ethernet performance tab?
-Do you only have 1 ethernet connected to the RN214 (hopefully yes)
-if the antivirus service is enabled on the NAS, try disabling it.
Can you also try downloading the log zip file (from the logs page) before and after the test. I'm interested in the ethernet statistics in network_settings.log (seeing if there is a lot of loss during the transfer).
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