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Transfer FROM external drive usb/esata TO RN102 ?
I'm getting slow transfer speeds to my new rn102 with wd 4tb red. I tried from an internal hd on my desktop and got about 6mb/sec and from an esata drive connected to my desktop and got about 3mb/sec...
nop e-SATA ≠ SATA but E-SATA should provide 3gbit/s, usb2 should be 480Mbit/s if my memory doesn't fail me.
The simplest way I know to test the speed is to copy something large for a few seconds and checkout what windows says about the speed (small file tend to be hard to copy/read for HDD and have slower transfer rates). I believe win8 has the same drop down arrow than windows server 2012 which shows a graph with the speed. You will have real speed, not theorical speed which you can find on you motherboard manual and about which we don't care anyway.
What bothers me is that the NAS didn't recognize your drive, it should have if we look at the NAS tech sheet, it recognized my HFS+ drive when I plugged it in the first time I booted my NAS. Except of course if you have 6.1.5, then the USB front port should be the only one to work.
The simplest way I know to test the speed is to copy something large for a few seconds and checkout what windows says about the speed (small file tend to be hard to copy/read for HDD and have slower transfer rates). I believe win8 has the same drop down arrow than windows server 2012 which shows a graph with the speed. You will have real speed, not theorical speed which you can find on you motherboard manual and about which we don't care anyway.
What bothers me is that the NAS didn't recognize your drive, it should have if we look at the NAS tech sheet, it recognized my HFS+ drive when I plugged it in the first time I booted my NAS. Except of course if you have 6.1.5, then the USB front port should be the only one to work.
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