Windows 10: NAS transfer speeds

hmm maybe I should get that router. Just using an ISP modem/router atm.

 

Hi there

That's about right -- 120 Mb/s is good -- anything over about 95 - 110 is acceptable in my book.

Where I am obviously we don't have too much Wifi contention -- only 300,000 people in the whole country !!! with probably one of the best if not the best Internet systems on the entire planet -- but running a load of cables is still a pain which is why I like the Wifi Bridge idea and as you have seen with your set up on the "Local LAN" bits you can use the 5 GHZ band even if you only use the 2.4 GHZ band for the rest.

Anyway I hope it all is working for you -- I can see why these Network Gurus get paid their salaries / contract money -- to me Networks are still a total mystery and if I do anything which works I feel like I've just won the Lottery !!!.

Going to enjoy some UK footie this weekend -- If there were any "Aliens" out there - I'm sure it would be written into "Encyclopaedia Galactica" or whatever -- Planet Earth - it's one great contribution to Galactic civilisation --- Football (the version with the ROUND ball for our US colleagues !!).

Cheers everyone and have a good weekend.

@ UK audiences -- have a look at BBC 4 this weekend - great Icelandic TV series (Eng subs) climax on Sat -- called TRAPPED. Filmed in the port of Seyðisfjørður where the Ferry from Denmark / Faroe Islands arrives. Episodes 9/10 -- earlier episodes on BBC Iplayer.

jimbo

 

When people talk about mb/s - is this megabits per second or megabytes per second? Whenever I copy large video files from my desktop onto my NAS drives. The transfer rate is generally about 30-40 megabytes per second ( I guess that's about 300-400 megabits), I don't know what the read rate typically is though, I guess it's probably double that at least. That's over Ethernet gigabit runs although the drives are on different switches. I just guess the my book and Iomega NAS drives hard drives are the limiting factor. But if the OP is getting 20 megabytes per sec I wouldn't say that's too bad but if it's megabits then that's not so good.

i struggle to see how people can achieve 120-125 megabytes per second transfers. Isn't that the absolute maximum gigabit Ethernet can carry? everything would have to be absolutely perfect to get anywhere near that.

 

Even with the NAS in the same room as me and plugged in to the same powerline adapter, I'm still maxing out at 60. Is there anything I can do to increase that?

 

Is that 60 megabytes or 60 megabits though. If it's the former then that is plenty fast enough. The absolute theoretical max over gigabit is 125 megabytes a second. But nobody can ever achieve this due to overheads, so I'd say what your getting ( if this is megabytes ) is just fine.

 

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I'd say based on that your speed is excellent and there is nothing to worry about. Not all NAS drives are the same, even though they have gigabit ports they typically write at anywhere between 10 - 100 megabytes per second. The fact you are achieving 65.4 means you've got a good one. That's my view on this. I wish I could get that speed, mine are 30-40 write speed but I accept this because my drives are not connected to the router direct but via switches (and each on different ones at that) and I think the actual NAS drives are the bottleneck as opposed to my network

i don't know what brand NAS you have but I have googled in the past. The my book live I have for example, 30-50 megabytes per second write speed for a large contingous file is typical of its performance so compared to that your NAS is in good nick. Plus the powerline overhead needs factoring in. They are very prone to noise and offer much less throughput than their advertised speed. To give point that depending where you plug in it would make no difference if you had 100 megabit powerlines or 1000 megabit powerlines due to the noise.

 

Thats the speed copying a file from the NAS. Copying to the NAS got around 80MB/s. It's certainly better than it was at 20MB/s.

I have the WD My Cloud Mirror 6Tb NAS which has gigabit port.

 

Well honestly I think those speeds are excellent and there is not much else you can do. I think you have a good quality NAS to provide those rates. Someone else may disagree but from my limited knowledge you've got a pretty good setup there

My NAS drives are much lower quality than yours, 1 TB models (My Book Live and Iomega HMNHD) so it's not surprising your speeds are double

 

Hi there.

I still think you should be able to get better than that although 80 Mb/s is obviously acceptable compared with the 20 you were getting.

over my Wifi network using the WIFI Bridge method getting decent speeds -- from external USB 3 HDD on a laptop to the NAS.

NAS as I posted before has 2 X 8TB RAID 0 arrays ( 4 X 4 TB physical WD HDD's -- with decent Cache enabled on the RAID controller).






Cheers

jimbo

 

I think your speeds are superb too Jimbo. I do truly believe the quality of NAS is a major factor. It's not the same model exactly but here is a thread with people sharing speeds using my book duo and typically write speeds vary between 35 - 50 megabytes per sec, okay it's old but it's just a quick example I found. That's similar equipment to what I have. So in both your cases your well above average. To be at 75-95% of the theoretical max of gigabit Ethernet seems to be pretty outstanding, at least from my viewpoint.

Whats Everyones Transfer Speeds - My Book Live Duo - WD Community

 

Had I had the money at the time I would have probably gone for a Qnap or Synology NAS but they don't typically include HDs with them whereas the WD one did.

 

Yeah that is where those types are frustrating and of course it gets real expensive. I just wanted a turnkey solution for my NAS which is why I just got the ones I did a few years back but they serve me well and are plenty fast enough. I think with the changes you have made to get upto 65-80 MB/s you have a good setup. That's 1 gig in about 15 seconds which is a rapid rate

 

*Biggrin Thanks for the encouragement. The test will come on Monday when my scheduled backup will start.

 

No problem, guess you'll find out then. Another reason I know the NAS drives are the bottleneck on my setup is because I tested transferring a large file directly between my two laptops a while back. Both over Ethernet and the speed was around the 100 megabytes per sec mark. And they were both on the same switch as the NAS drives at the time.