NAS Slow?!

TheDean · 26 Feb 2008 at 22:32

Hi all,

Bought a Synology Disk Station DS-107e and transferring files from my HD to it is very, very slow. I have connected it directly to my router - but am only getting 7MB per second transfer speed. Very frustrating!

Any ideas?

decto · 26 Feb 2008 at 23:03

Hi,

Is your router 100mbps, if so then 7MB/s is around the bottom of a typical range of 7-10 MB/sec

I now connect the wired PC's with a gigabit switch and then connect a spare port on the switch to the router for internet. I can't comment on the performance of the Synology but I can now get 40+ MB/sec between PC's wheras before I was limited to around 9MB/sec

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TheDean · 27 Feb 2008 at 09:24

philhoole · 28 Feb 2008 at 12:58

7MB might be what you can expect from that NAS I'm afraid.

You may get better performance if you transfer files via ftp using something like Filezilla?

Methanoid · 13 Mar 2008 at 11:17

FTP is normally 10-20% faster on NAS boxes. Also the tasks the box runs affect transfer speed. Synology runs PHP, Apache and other things which eats CPU time. On the Linkstation series the one without the "media server" has a faster network transfer speed. Try disabling services if you can - its been a while since I sold my Synology boxes so I forget if you can!

badbob · 13 Mar 2008 at 11:23

What OS are you using? On my 100mps LAN I think it's about 1GB per minute.

rpstewart · 13 Mar 2008 at 11:31

1GB/min is not possible on a 100mbps LAN, the best you can theoretically get is 750MB/min with a realistic value being nearer 5-600MB/min depending on network load.

ChrisLX200 · 13 Mar 2008 at 12:22

The real problem is in transferring lots of small files rather than a few large ones. My NAS (QNAP TS210) really takes a hit then, it's essentially unusable for one application I originally had in mind. I found disabling QoS helped transfer speed a bit, but still gave up and moved the file archive to a basic external drive (a 1TB MyBook).