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| Thread ID: 119164 | 2011-07-08 04:26:00 | Which NAS driver? | han308 (7457) | Press F1 |
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| 1215567 | 2011-07-11 05:46:00 | Pretty much every single desktop / laptop HDD out there these days has sustained sequential read / write speeds of over 100mbps. Most low-end consumer NAS drives are just a 3.5" Desktop HDD in a caddy. If your network is only 10/100 or Wifi, then the HDD won't be the bottleneck. The speed of the NAS is determined by the speed of the ~chipset~ it uses. if the NAT has a slow chip(speed) then the actual transfer speeds will be bad. Ive seen NAS's with transfer speeds almost 1/10 the HD's actual transfer speed- I threw my older el cheapo in the bin it was so slow. That was a few years back,on cheaper NAT's. There was a reason a good NAT was really really expensive (again, 2years back) do these newer generation cheap NAS's have transfer speeds that match the speed of the HD ?? |
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| 1215568 | 2011-07-11 05:56:00 | do these newer generation cheap NAS's have transfer speeds that match the speed of the HD ?? hell no, 20~30MB/s is still the norm yet people still insist on RAIDing the drives for extra performance :banana |
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| 1215569 | 2011-07-11 06:15:00 | hell no, 20~30MB/s is still the norm yet people still insist on RAIDing the drives for extra performance :banana AH yes. Ive had the job of trying to recover data off a RAID 0 external storage when 1 drive failed...oh dear....that was the only copy of all your data?? The thing was factory setup RAID0 to increase the capacity. :badpc: |
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| 1215570 | 2011-07-11 07:59:00 | Lower-end NAS devices are still slow, because as suggested above they use low-spec controllers to keep costs down. We had a BlackArmor 110 until recently and I would say it probably averaged about 20MB/Sec write and 40MB/sec read on 1Gbps LAN, which isn't bad really. If you really want performance, the QNAP TurboNAS TS series are awesome (about 100MB/sec read/write) but they are EXPENSIVE. |
inphinity (7274) | ||
| 1215571 | 2011-07-11 22:46:00 | ....BlackArmor 110 until recently and I would say it probably averaged about 20MB/Sec write and 40MB/sec read Thats a usable speed, so they are getting better. :thanks Thats a BIG improvement on the ones I tried a few years back, mine had 5M/s MAX |
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