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fkomlosi
Jul 12, 2012Aspirant
Readynas Duo X-RAID to RAID0
Hi all, I have a Readynas Duo with a 1TB and a 2TB drive, running X-RAID. I want to achieve maximal space, using two raid0 volumes (redundancy is not an issue). Could someone please tell me if I can ...
StephenB
Jul 12, 2012Guru - Experienced User
I haven't used USB backup with the NAS (everything is over the network). But from what I've read here, it is generally not faster and frequently is slower.
If you can sustain 15 megabytes/second then you can copy about 50 gigabytes per hour. So you'd be copying for about 20 hours.
15 megabits per second of course is another matter. That would take about a week to do the copy. If you are getting these speeds with jumbo frames on, then I would turn them off. Also check that you are using cat 5e or cat 6 cable.
If you can sustain 15 megabytes/second then you can copy about 50 gigabytes per hour. So you'd be copying for about 20 hours.
15 megabits per second of course is another matter. That would take about a week to do the copy. If you are getting these speeds with jumbo frames on, then I would turn them off. Also check that you are using cat 5e or cat 6 cable.
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