Old DS214+

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Lord Alibaski

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The wife wanted some more backup drives so I got this old DS214+ out of the loft for her but the transfer speeds I am seeing are nothing like what they used to be.

I have attached it to my flint 2 on ports 4&5 but I am only seeing speeds of around 30/33MBs when I used to get anything between 90/110MBs. The units got 2 WD red drives which are running perfectly fine, it's just this slow speed that's annoying. All Ethernet ports on the NAS and flint 2 seem to be working as stated.

The system I am using at the moment that I'm transferring files for her

Windows 11 Pro
9950X3D
64.0 GB RAM
MSI X870E Tomahawk
Samsung 1TB 990 Pro

Would it be better to buy a USB 3.0 to Dual Port Gigabit Ethernet Adapter just that I have never used one of these USB Ethernet adapters before.

Thanks for any help.
 
Tried it mate still only getting between 30/33 finding it really strange. Looked in the flint and it all seems fine just don't understand the really slow speeds. Cables are fine as well 2 cat5e tried them on the flint to pc and no problems at all.

Could it be affected by Microsoft disabling SMBv1 I had to enable it again because the NAS wasn't being detected in windows 11.
 
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Look at whatever page shows you the CPU, memory etc. graphs, what ones get pegged when you write to it? If you just set it up then it might still be building the array.
 
If it's not rebuilding or antivirus or anything else obvious, try using a different protocol rather than SMB.

FTP should still get maximum transfer rates and will rule out anything network related.

kb.synology.com

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When transfering all I was doing was mapping the drive in windows and copying files over to that drive. The drive wouldn't map without me re-enabling SMBv1 because Microsoft disabled it.

I tried FTP was running 1 upload and was getting 16.2MB so tried 2 files it maxed out at guess what 32MB, tried 3 files and again all maxed out at 10/11MB each.
 
I used to get that speed through my Flint 2 and presumed it was just the max speed of the Odroid HC1 but one day noticed it was suddenly full gigabit. No idea what fixed it but I do keep everything up to date so can only presume something got fixed somewhere with an update. If you've not already check NAS and motherboard firmware, motherboard drivers and LAN drivers from manufacturer website they are usually newer and router firmware, I'm using native OpenWRT so can't comment on stock, it should be capable of full speed but vanilla OpenWRT definitely is.

A live boot into linux might rule out windows 11 as well I'm on W10.
 
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Motherboard BIOS is up to date, chipset drivers are all up to date, flint 2 is currently on OpenWrt 25.12.5 r33051-f5dae5ece4 (which is the latest beta3 firmware).

The only AV I use is windows defender. I was going to try copying via USB but the write speed isn't that good either.

My next test will be a live linux boot see if that works if that fails I will take the drive round to a friends who is on a different ISP see if that works any better.
 
Just checking you know LAN drivers are a seperate installer to chipset drivers. If not they are 6 months out of date on the MSI site https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/MAG-X870E-TOMAHAWK-WIFI/support#driver

They are probably here https://www.realtek.com/Download/List?cate_id=584 but check your specific adaptor is listed. If you don't know it you can find it in the adaptor properties, details tab and scroll down to inf section. There may be an easyer way to get that but that's how I do it.

If your only transfering on the LAN your ISP shouldn't matter. Couldn't hurt to try it on a different setup though.
 
I'm all up to date with everything John24, a different setup is the only other option I have to test this issue.

Just to show speeds via ftp are slow but this can be contained with 2 files being uploaded it won't go any faster.

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To prove nothing is up with my actual speed this one is to my private server speed is perfectly fine.

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