Gigabit NAS.. pointless!!! My rant!!

DrMekon

DrMekon

DrMekon

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I find such a description completely misleading.. yeah, ok, they have A gigabit capable port, but can only muster, at most maybe twice the speed f a 100mb lan connection in data transfer.. pointeless!!!

I think, at best Ive seen about 25MBps which is about a quarter of what you should expect!!!

I was looking for a NAS, but dont think I will bother now.. would be better off building my own linux server, NAS solution!!! Cheaper and much faster, albeit not so small!!!

Rant over!!
 
While I wouldn't necessarily disagree with your sentiments, your comments are a bit sweeping. Personally I find that network throughput generally is more to do with the switch something is plugged in to rather than the device itself. Although some budget NAS enclosures are very week in certain types of data transfer (which is unforgiveable, data transfer is basically their sole purpose).
 
It's not really a 1/4 of what you should expect when a single HDD can only read at about 60MB/s at the most. The highest transfer speed I've got between my RH9 server and XP desktop is 40MB/s which is most probably the highest sustainable transfer rate of the old HDDs in there.

25MB/s isn't bad at all for a network attached device.
 
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