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[Mange]

Just bought DNS-323 and I have problems with it.
From the beginning I had slow transfer rates to and from NAS, now... knock on wood, I have really good transfer rates from NAS. Unfortunatly transfer rates to NAS is a joke. Disc in NAS is a Samsung 1TB Spinpoint F3. Formatted with EXT2 (had EXT3 before but reformatted drive in an attempt to get better speed), My network consists of one computer router/adsl modem and NAS. No GigaBit, still going 100Mb due to the "old" router, a Thomson SpeedTouch ST585. Transfer rates from NAS is 82% (Task Manager) and about 4% to NAS. Does anybody have any ideas what to check or what could be causing this.

[gunrunnerjohn]

Perhaps if you told us what transfer speeds you're getting it would help?

[Mange]

I read from NAS at 82Mbit and write to NAS with about 4Mbit. As it is a 100Mb network I´m pretty pleased with the read speed, it´s just that write speed is too far from the read speed. I´m aware of that it wont probably be as fast as 82Mbit but hey... 4Mbit... something is wrong.

[gunrunnerjohn]

Well, yes.  The write speed is pretty bad!

First step is a reset to factory defaults to see if that changes things.

[Mange]

Default factory settings set... no change. Pretty good read, horrible write. How about connecting the NAS and the pc without the router. Any settings I need to change, cable?

[gunrunnerjohn]

If you connect the NAS directly to a PC, the easiest way is to enable the DHCP Server in the NAS, it'll connect without any modification of the PC's configuration in that case.

[fordem]

How long have the disks been in the DNS-323?  Do you use it for torrents?  I believe if the drives are fragmented the write speed is where it will show first.

[Mange]

I have now tried connecting the NAS directly to the PC. Got connected but things turned out even worse!!! Around 2Mbit back and forth. Does it need that different cable I don´t remember the name of? Back with router connection and speeds got back to 82Mbit read and 4Mbit write.

I fitted the new disc in the new NAS a couple of days ago. Have just copied a handful of Gigabytes to the NAS to have some data to troubleshoot with. Fragmentation is not the problem. btw... how do you defrag disc in the NAS??

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Have also tried a couple of different cables but no luck.

[Mange]

  new update..

Found a loooong cable and was able to connect a second pc. Got 67Mbit write speed with it wich I must say I´m very pleased with. Problem with my primary pc remains, what could be causing the terrible output from my pc? Perhaps not the correct thread as it apparently has nothing to do with the NAS. If you have any ideas what it could be or what to do I sure like to hear it.

[Mange]

  Final update!

Reinstalled network card... all is good.

One last question before I move my data to the NAS, should I go ext2 or ext3? Single drive so it´s no raid....yet.

[gunrunnerjohn]

A no-brainer for me, I'd go EXT3.  The added data security is worth far more than the 10-15% speed boost of EXT2, at least IMO.