Max. write speed Netgear ReadyNAS RND4000 NV+

[Snowwie]

I have recently bought an ReadyNAS RND4000 NV+ NAS.

In this NAS I have placed two Western Digital 2TB hard drives.

In my computer I have a gigabit Ethernet card (onboard my Asus P5Q Deluxe)
I have used Cat 6 UTP cable to connect too the Router and so on to the NAS. (Cat 6 everywhere in the network)

I need some facts:
- Does the NV+ has a 1Gb Ethernet port or just 100Mb?
- My Router (A Netgear WNR834Bv2) has probably 100Mb ports, but I am not really sure about this either.

My guesses are the Router is the weakest link in this setup, because if I copy one big file from my computer to the NAS it does it with only 6 or 7 MB per/sec.
1Gb should at least give 30 or 40 MB per / sec.

Anyone suggestions?

[mdgm-ntgr]

All ReadyNAS units have gigabit ethernet ports.

Did you buy the NV+ v1 (silver chassis) or v2 (charcoal chassis)?

Yes looking at the manual the router only has 100Mbit ports. You could replace it or put a gigabit switch between the router and your NAS and PC.

[Snowwie]

I have the NV+ (silver one).

What speeds can be expected to this NAS? How fast can it write to the HDD's in x-raid mode?

[StephenB]

http://www.readynas.com/?p=331#Performance

If you install the gigabit switch (or upgrade the router to gigabit), you should be able to get about 27 MB/s read and 17 MB/s write for drag and drop and Windows systems. With some tuning you can often increase the write speed. The x86 and v2 (charcoal chassis) are quite a bit faster btw.

Without the gigabit switch you can get 7-10 MB/s.