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readyNAS 104 - is true gigabit speeds possible
Hi all
i currently own a RN104 and wanted to know why my read/write speed is not true gigabit?
I am running 4 x 500gb WD drives in raid 10. Both ethernet ports are connected to a new ASUS gigabit router.
For teaming mode i have tried both "adaptive load balancing" and "round-robin" and even tried having it disabled. None have made a difference.
For writing to the NAS im only getting about 45mbps but when i copy PC to PC im getting about 80/90 mbps.
So my question is how can this be resolved and also why have dual gig NIC's when 1 port alone cant even reach good speeds?
Thank you!!
i currently own a RN104 and wanted to know why my read/write speed is not true gigabit?
I am running 4 x 500gb WD drives in raid 10. Both ethernet ports are connected to a new ASUS gigabit router.
For teaming mode i have tried both "adaptive load balancing" and "round-robin" and even tried having it disabled. None have made a difference.
For writing to the NAS im only getting about 45mbps but when i copy PC to PC im getting about 80/90 mbps.
So my question is how can this be resolved and also why have dual gig NIC's when 1 port alone cant even reach good speeds?
Thank you!!
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- Can you send me your logs (see link in my sig)?
What version of ReadyNAS OS are you running?
For several years there have been NAS units that can't saturate gigabit ethernet. 45Mb/s is still a lot better than ~ 10Mb/s you would get using 100Mbit ethernet
The second NIC would be there for automatic failover (if you choose a teaming mode with this) or for connecting to a second network. - Saturating gigabit requires a higher end NAS like the RN500 series.
Write speeds will go up if you disable snapshots and anti-virus protection. Though personally I prefer having the snapshots even though there is a performance price.
Teaming will not help, you are not limited by the network. Even if you were, teaming won't increase speed on a single client connection. - Hi mdgm,
im running the latest 6.2.0 and would you like the logs emailed to the email address mentioned in the link?
i know its better than 100MBit ethernet but it has so much more potential in it!
Thanks StephenB wrote: Saturating gigabit requires a higher end NAS like the RN500 series.
Write speeds will go up if you disable snapshots and anti-virus protection. Though personally I prefer having the snapshots even though there is a performance price.
Teaming will not help, you are not limited by the network. Even if you were, teaming won't increase speed on a single client connection.
Hi Stephen,
snapshots and AV are both disabled already :) i guess the teaming would only be for redundancycvbnm88 wrote:
im running the latest 6.2.0 and would you like the logs emailed to the email address mentioned in the link?
Yes- Your disks aren't on the compatibility list.
The 104 has limited resources. It doesn't have the resources to do e.g. RAID-10 at the performance levels that you would get using a more powerful NAS.
So you have already done a factory reset on 6.2.0 and have shares with snapshots disabled. Is bit-rot protection disabled as well?
You might be interested in this thread: http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=78767
Performance using RAID-10 may be better than using RAID-10, but the fact remainsSkywalker wrote: In the market segment where the RN104 resides, capacity per dollar is of more interest
than other considerations such as maximum redundancy and gigabit performance. - Yes the disk i am aware of and will be upgrading soon, which raid would you recommend then for data loss prevention ? or is there anything i can tune to write faster?
Bit rot protection is disabled. is this ok ?
Thanks - Well RAID-10 is not a bad choice, but regardless of what RAID-level you choose you need to backup important data primarily stored on the NAS regularly.
No data should be stored on just the one device. RAID will help reduce the likelihood of losing data, but it can't protect against all possible problems.
You appear to have tuned it well to write fast already.
That is O.K. Bit-rot protection protects against media degradation but there is a write performance penalty.
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