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My current synology maxes out at around 30mbs, thinking of upgrading to a 4 bay of some sort but only if I can upgrade the transfer speed, anyone had the same experience?
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Do benchmarks on your Hard Drives locally from the NAS. make sure your connected network 1gbps and not going through powerlines or other switches.
Choose a raid with mirror which can double read / write rates.
Choose a raid with mirror which can double read / write rates.
I would generally assume that a NAS is connected by wire but that doesn't preclude your "client" being connected wirelessly. If there's a wireless connection somewhere between the two (client and NAS) see if you can try it fully wired. Between my PC and NAS (gigabit wired) I get around 110-120 megabytes per second (when copying large files - slower if copying a lot of small files) as shown in Windows copy info. It could also be slowed down if your network is busy and if everything is going though your router.
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It's a bit late, but... Your NAS isn't running encrypted is it? Some of the older Synology NAS that utilised encryption basically sent a 110-117MB capable transfer speed from disk, all the way down to 15-30MByte/s speeds. (One of the reasons I'm upgrading, the NAS I'm going for has a 10gbe optional though, so will also need to look at m.2 nvme to get that full speed going)
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I get around 110megabytes a second over gigabit on my modern qnap which I think is about the max
I did have a very old Netgear that barely managed 30megabytes a second so I think it must have had a 10/100 network card
I did have a very old Netgear that barely managed 30megabytes a second so I think it must have had a 10/100 network card
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10/100 will limit at 12meg/s
It’ll depend on what you’re transferring. Large files will likely sustain 112MB/s, however small files will markedly reduce the overall speed due to the network protocol overheads . For example, a 4gb video file will sustain full speed throughout but 4gb worth of 20MB RAW photos transferred to the same drive will drop to around 30MB/s.
This is because in very simple terms, the PC has to ask to create the file, await a reply from the nas to say OK, ready, start sending the data, ask for the file to be closed and await confirmation from the nas to say closed. Each of the steps having a delay which gets in the way of actually sending file data. Then it repeats the process for the next file going through the steps again. Whereas for a single large file, it only has to negotiate once at each end of the large transfer.
It’ll depend on what you’re transferring. Large files will likely sustain 112MB/s, however small files will markedly reduce the overall speed due to the network protocol overheads . For example, a 4gb video file will sustain full speed throughout but 4gb worth of 20MB RAW photos transferred to the same drive will drop to around 30MB/s.
This is because in very simple terms, the PC has to ask to create the file, await a reply from the nas to say OK, ready, start sending the data, ask for the file to be closed and await confirmation from the nas to say closed. Each of the steps having a delay which gets in the way of actually sending file data. Then it repeats the process for the next file going through the steps again. Whereas for a single large file, it only has to negotiate once at each end of the large transfer.