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Replace my old NetGear NAS with what Brand now that NetGear is out of the NAS game???
Now that NetGear has left the building and abandoned the NAS, what to do? Older machines like my ReadyNAS Pro 6 are getting slow. Even when I upgraded it with OS6 and capacity (I am running 76TB)...
Readynaspro wrote:
I use a simple Windows based program called LAN Speed Test, https://totusoft.com/lanspeed thru which you point to a file folder on the NAS to write data to, and read data from.
But then I used a program you recommended it the past called NASTester 1.7, and that shows both read and write speed averaging 100 MB/Sec.
FWIW, I've used both. Both are useful in measuring the file transfer speed.
That speed depends on disk performance, the network, and the smb server software itself. Sometimes it's useful to separate network speed from the other factors. iperf lets you do that (there is a windows version also).
As far as comparing the two program results - one thing that matters is the file size. Overall, small file transfers and folder browsing tend to be a lot slower with SMB than large file transfers. So you might check if the file size used with lanspeed matches the file size with NasTester.
Ah good point. One that I forgot to mention. File size used in both was similar at 80MB. I also noted that a small file size took much longer to transfer the same amount of data.
I will try to find a windows version of iperf. Thanks for that suggestion.
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