Synology NAS - Transfer speed issue

enigma27 · 18 Jul 2011 at 09:17

deuse said:
I have 2 of the samsung F4 eco drives but they was made in Feb 2011 so no need to update.

Another thing to look out for is how many Thumbs.db files are on the NAS. I deleted all mine.

Well i bought one for my main PC mine 3 days ago and it required an update....

just flash with the fimrware patch and bobs ya uncle speeds are back up to normal... 37 meg to the Nas and summin silly like 60meg copying from the Nas to my PC.

deuse · 18 Jul 2011 at 09:24

I am lead to belive that if they are made before Dec 2010 they will need the update.
What date is on your HDs? and try Flash FXP to transfer files

enigma27 · 18 Jul 2011 at 09:59

deuse said:
I am lead to belive that if they are made before Dec 2010 they will need the update.
What date is on your HDs? and try Flash FXP to transfer files

Not sure what date I will have to check when i get home but only took delivery from OCUK on Friday.

Why use Flash fxp when all I am doing is copying files to my NAS? surely its more hassle opening another programe than using simple copy / paste in windows explorer.

Skidilliplop · 18 Jul 2011 at 10:23

I'd be tempted to pull the drives out of the NAS and try them in your PC. a) it's a lot faster for getting your data backed up to the PC if you want to trash and start again on the NAS. b) it'll let you see if the drives are the limitation. Which I doubt, the only drives I've seen to transfer at <10MB/s sustained have been properly broken. In RAID1 you'd have to get two equally broken ones to only read off at that speed. Also if it's RAID1 you could try pulling each disk out in turn and running off a single disk which may lend a further clue.

Firegod · 18 Jul 2011 at 18:00

enigma27 said:
Firegod do you by any chance have a Samsung F4 eco drive?

Hi, no I have x2 [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Samsung Eco Green F2 1.5TB Hard Drive's.[/FONT]

Firegod · 18 Jul 2011 at 18:02

Skidilliplop said:
I'd be tempted to pull the drives out of the NAS and try them in your PC. a) it's a lot faster for getting your data backed up to the PC if you want to trash and start again on the NAS. b) it'll let you see if the drives are the limitation. Which I doubt, the only drives I've seen to transfer at <10MB/s sustained have been properly broken. In RAID1 you'd have to get two equally broken ones to only read off at that speed. Also if it's RAID1 you could try pulling each disk out in turn and running off a single disk which may lend a further clue.

I've put one of the drives into my PC, but I can't get it to show in My Computer. (Have tried the other drive too). I've gone in to Computer Management > Disk Management, but all I see is:-

It shows x3 basic disks, and I get no options. If I click where it says "Disk 1" in the Red Box, I can only select "Dynamic Volume..." but I don't know if I need to do that?

Any advice? :confused:

Thanks!

Firegod · 18 Jul 2011 at 18:28

OK, so found that from here, http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771775.aspx:-
Partitions on basic disks added to the system do not appear in the Disk Management volume list view.

Cause:Volumes on basic disks added to the system are not automatically mounted and assigned drive letters by default.

Solution:Manually mount the basic volumes by assigning drive letters, or by creating mount points using Disk Management or the DiskPart or mountvol commands.

And DiskPart takes me to here:-

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc773140(WS.10).aspx#BKMK_1

But I still can't assign a driver letter manually. I'm wondering if I do need to make it dynamic, as that says that "any existing partitions on the disk become simple volumes." And if I make them volumes, they can be assigned drive letters.

What we thinking, yeah?

Firegod · 18 Jul 2011 at 18:50

OK, dynamic disk did not work and I've ended up formatting the disk. On the plus side, I ran the Disk Mark utility and the speeds were all 100+ MB/s. I'll stick the disk back into the NAS and hopefully, the data from the untouched disk will copy back over.

Firegod · 18 Jul 2011 at 18:51

But would still like to get the data off somehow. Dynamic Disk does not appear to be the answer...

Skidilliplop · 19 Jul 2011 at 09:45

You might be limited by the formatting. If it's not NTFS or FAT32 windows won't see it. Booting from a Linux live CD would let you at pretty much any filesystem you can think of to copy across to your PC.

I'm assuming the partition filesystem comes up "unknown" in disk management, but can't say for sure because you have the context menu hiding most of the useful info in that screenshot

Firegod · 19 Jul 2011 at 17:10

Skidilliplop said:
You might be limited by the formatting. If it's not NTFS or FAT32 windows won't see it. Booting from a Linux live CD would let you at pretty much any filesystem you can think of to copy across to your PC.

I'm assuming the partition filesystem comes up "unknown" in disk management, but can't say for sure because you have the context menu hiding most of the useful info in that screenshot

Haha hey don't be blaming my screenshot work.

It didn't even say unknown, but a chap at work mentioned what you have about the file system. Said it's probably something Windows won't recognise.

But now for the good news!

Since I put the formatted drive back in the NAS and it rebuilt last night from the untouched disk, I've ran the Disk Benchmark again (which previously gave ~6 MB/s) and it now shows....

55 MB/s read and 38 MB/s write!

I have no idea how! I'm guessing there were inconsistencies in the mirror? Now to see if the result stays the same when I move it back to the original switch! :cool: