gigabit lan speed any good?

Raggs

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Hi
i just set up my new router a Asus N56U the speeds i get when transferring video files from my Zyxel NSA310 (has a WD 5200RPM drive afaik ) to my PC when writing to SSD drive are about

42.6MB/Second

not sure if that good or not hehe i got 11MB/second with old 10/100 router I'm using a cheap flea bay cat5e 20m cable between router and PC would i benefit from buying buy a better quality cable cat6e is better ??

cheers.

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I think the limit will be the HDD and or the NAS enclosure. That's a respectable speed over LAN I'd say for home equipment. For servers we always max out gigabit but they have decent array controllers etc.
 
This is what I get between my desktop and my HP Microserver

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very nice :) looked at buying a hp micro sever but price bit much for me read a few reports about the Zyxel and what im getting seems about right for the nas given the cheap price of it.

what kind of Hdds do you use in your HP? speed/ brand ect.. is worth using 7200rpm drives or is the quality of nas what determines the speed.
 
Really to achieve a constant 110MB/s you need to be running to either a raid array or ssd's. I have 2 sets of 2x wd green 1tb raid 0, one in my server and one in my pc and even then only large files for example an iso or a video file will transfer at full speed if I try to back up a game it will go down to maybe 60-70MB/s

A 7200rpm drive might help a bit, I cant seem to find a review for that nas where they change out the hard drive to see what the nas itself can do.

And changing the cable will make no difference.
 
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Copying large (30GB+) files from a single 1TB Samsung F3 in my PC over to my server regularly sees sustained rates around the 108MB/Sec mark. This is the speed as reported by Win 7 in the copy dialog. The transfer speed obviously plummets when copying a mix of smaller files.

This is with a Z77-D3H and Intel PT server NICs at both ends. When I was using the on board NIC on my previous mother board (P5Q-E) I was only seeing 60-70MB/Sec.
 
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bremen1874 said:
Copying large (30GB+) files from a single 1TB Samsung F3 in my PC over to my server regularly sees sustained rates around the 108MB/Sec mark. This is the speed as reported by Win 7 in the copy dialog. The transfer speed obviously plummets when copying a mix of smaller files.

This is with a Z77-D3H and Intel PT server NICs at both ends. When I was using the on board NIC on my previous mother board (P5Q-E) I was only seeing 60-70MB/Sec.
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But what are you transfering onto? Hard drives will generally write a decent amount slower than they are able to read.

Edit: To clarify my above post I am talking about drives that are able to sustain 110MB/s both ways as a nas generally has to both send and receive files.
 
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Jayster said:
But what are you transfering onto? Hard drives will generally write a decent amount slower than they are able to read.
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Yes, write will be slower than read. The target in the this case is a three drive RAID5 array on a PERC5 (2TB Seagate Greens).

As far as I’m concerned you can only saturate a link by writing to it. KIA just stated that a single drive can saturate a Gigabit link, which it can. If the drive(s) at the other end can’t handle the throughput that’s another issue.;)
 
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I haven't had any 7200rpm or less drives that could sustain 110MB/s in real world usage.
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I have a Mirrored Pair of Samsung SpinPoint F4 EcoGreen 2TB drives in my HP Microserver and I constantly see speeds between 120 - 110MB/s.
 
I've tempted to "borrow" a couple of quad port NICs from work and create a 4GigE LACP bond between my home server and desktop, oh and slam an SSD in the Microserver as well ;)
 
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