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> my old QNAP NAS would average around 17-22mbps transfer speeds This seems a bit too low in my opinion, I would expect an average consumer-grade NAS to perfor
by mastazi 7y ago
> my old QNAP NAS would average around 17-22mbps transfer speeds
This seems a bit too low in my opinion, I would expect an average consumer-grade NAS to perform a little bit better than that. Perhaps there was a bottleneck somewhere (e.g. network issues)?
I didn't test transfer speeds on my cheap Thecus NAS (with 2X WD Red 3TB in RAID 1) but now I'm curious so I think I will check when I get home.
What's your experience with NAS transfer speeds, HN people?
- ac29 7y agoI generally don't have trouble nearly saturating a gigabit Ethernet link on a entry level 2-bay Synology NAS (800+Mbps).
- MayeulC 7y ago22 MBps sounds like what my former DNS-320 achieved. IIRC, encrypted data transfer (WebDAVs instead of NFS) usually reduced the transfer speed a lot, due to a weak CPU. The value above is the one I recall for encrypted transfers (note Bytes, not bits).
- Fnoord 7y agoIIRC I had about 60 MB/sec in 2008 with some old Phenom of mine with dedicated Areca raid controller plus 4x 1 TB and encrypted storage.
- jlgaddis 7y agoI get several Gbps from my NAS (serving multiple ESXi hosts, plus NFS/SMB for laptops and desktops) but my NAS is a "real" 2U server.