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Title: How do you measure files transfer speed between DNS-321 and your PC?
Post by: pwanghk on September 14, 2010, 02:48:03 PM

Greetings:

I would like to measure as accurately as possible the files transfer speed between my PC hooking up directly to the DNS-321.  Is timing a copy of 4GB of VOB files (VIDEO_TS folder) both way and divide it by the times it took a good way of measure or is there a more accurate method?

Thanks in advance for your time and help.

Title: Re: How do you measure files transfer speed between DNS-321 and your PC?
Post by: gunrunnerjohn on September 14, 2010, 03:39:48 PM

Copy a large file, say 1gig, and time it.  Then copy a folder of smaller files the same size and time that.  You can see the maximum transfer rate and the typical for more normal sized files.

Title: Re: How do you measure files transfer speed between DNS-321 and your PC?
Post by: mig on September 15, 2010, 12:46:43 PM

You could try 'NAS performance tester' if your PC runs a Windows OS.
http://www.808.dk/?code-csharp-nas-performance (http://www.808.dk/?code-csharp-nas-performance)

Title: Re: How do you measure files transfer speed between DNS-321 and your PC?
Post by: pwanghk on September 15, 2010, 03:09:43 PM

Thank you all for your response ans especially for the NAS performance tester link.

Title: Re: How do you measure files transfer speed between DNS-321 and your PC?
Post by: gunrunnerjohn on September 15, 2010, 03:29:18 PM

I prefer the "real world" test over a benchmark, I find them to be more accurate. :)