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The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => D-Link Storage => DNS-321 => Topic started by: jamieson on April 22, 2010, 09:47:02 AM
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Here's my setup:
10/100 router/switch
Laptop with 10/100 NIC
Desktop PC with 10/100 NIC
DNS-321, FW1.03, 2 x 500GB drives, RAID1, EXT3
All network connections are 100Mbps full duplex.
Transferring a single large (1GB) file between the laptop and the desktop takes about 2 minutes, or about 8MB/sec. This is probably about as good as it gets with 100Mbps.
When transferring the same file between either machine and the DNS it drops to HALF that, about 4MB/sec. It would appear that the DNS is the bottleneck in this system. Others on this forum are reporting DNS transfers of > 10MB/sec -- granted they're using GBE -- but still I was hoping to approach the 8MB/sec performance that I'm getting with the PCs. Any suggestions?
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I should mention that it shipped with firmware v1.02. I installed 1 drive and formatted it as EXT3. Then did the firmware upgrade to v1.03, then added the second drive and setup RAID1. I did NOT do a load factory defaults after the FW upgrade, probably should have. I'll try that tonight and reformat the drives and see if anything changes.