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USB 3.0 Transfer Speeds on RN204
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ReadyNas 200-4 RN 204 USB 3 transfer speed
I just purchased a ReadyNas RN204, 4 drive NAS I've been reading sas much as I can as quickly as I can and already, I have a couple of questions. 1. I have not been able to find a true transfer speed of the USB 3.0 connections when hookng up a USB 3.0 external HDD. I am installing 4 WD RED 4TB drives and looking at using XRaid. Once it is set up I want to transfer large high deffition files and MKV movie files to the NAS... I will set up separate folders for content.. lets call the Folders 1-4 which are currently on my 8TB External Seagate drive I"ve been using as a back up. It looks like I have 2 options. Connect my external HDD to the 3.0 USB on the back of the drive and drag and drop directly to the NAS... (but, I've heard good and bad on that transfer speed). I usually get 80-110mb/s when I transefer files from my PS to my external drive using a USB 3.0 connection and that is satisfactory. And I'd be happy with the. The other option would be hook up the External HDD to my desktop USB3.0 and Transfer the Files via Ethernet across my network to the NAS which I think is a waste of bandwitdth just to get started. In that senerio of Computer with USB 3.0 external HDD vi Ethernet what type of transfer is folks seeing? My compouter is a very fast I7 pc 3.2ghz so it's quick. . 2. My other question is backing up the NAS, since there are the 2 USB 3.0 USB connections what about just hooking up 2 8TB drives usb 3.0 external and back up to those drives? I know I'll have more questions but since I'm getting started I will start with the transfer questions... as the most important right now. I"m looking forward to having the large NAS, my current set up uses Older 2TB Iomega - Lenovo NAS which has worked well... but I am looking forward to getting to one large NAS for our needs.. Thanks in advance.Solved4.9KViews0likes10Comments