I really appreciate the time you have given me... thank you.gggplaya wrote:I did some testing, it seems my desktop ethernet isn't as fast as my laptop's ethernet. It's like 10% slower but the results are pretty much the same. My NAS is in Raid 5 with three 6TB WD Red drives and the directory I'm copying is about 21GB and takes about 6 minutes to copy from the NAS.
--It doesn't seem to matter if I copy from my NAS or laptop, but reading a whole directory of larger RAW image files (40MB each) is done at about 45MB/s to 60MB/s depending on the computer.
--Reading a whole directory of smaller jpg files is about 10-15MB/s from the NAS or my desktop.
--Reading a large 6GB movie single file saturates the gigabit at about 90MB/s-110MB/s.
--Writing the same directory from my SSD on my Laptop to the NAS is about 80MB/s.
--Copying from my Internal SSD to my internal magenetic hard drive within the PC is about 80MB/s, the small jpg files don't change the speed at all when copying internally.
--Opening and saving PDF, Word, and Excel files is just as instantaneous as on my computers with SSD drives, even though it's on the network.
Raid 5 is supposed to have a faster read than write, so I'm not sure what's going on, but that's how my QNAP 451+ performs as it is. It has an intel celeron J1900 processor.
- Can I take this data as confirmation that the Gbe (or in my proposal 2Gbe) is nowhere near the bottleneck for small file transfer?
- Can anyone clarify what specifications in the Qnap range would maximise it?
Cheers, Steve
