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[tfiveash]

beefy324:

The ds210j runs about half the data throughput as the ds210+.  It also does not have an esata port.  You might also look at the DS209.

Terry

[gunrunnerjohn]

The "J" models are lower end units, I'd stick with either the standard ones or the + models.

[jamieburchell]

The router's WAN MTU has nothing to do with your network and jumbo frames.

I read that you should set the MTU of the NIC to match that of the WAN's MTU 

http://www.talktalkmembers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41131

Although you may have now entered the right MTU setting in the router, you may need to adjust the MTU in your computer system, as this may still be showing a default MTU which is different from your router MTU

Confused.

[gunrunnerjohn]

Confuses me as well.   I've always been on cable or fiber, and I've never varied from the defaults.  I believe there is a setting for the gateway MTU as well as the jumbo frames.  Clearly, a frame of 9000 exceeds the 1492 or 1500 that is the general sizes for DSL and cable.  Truthfully, I never gave this issue much thought, since it's never bitten me in the butt.

[beefy314]

beefy324:

The ds210j runs about half the data throughput as the ds210+.  It also does not have an esata port.  You might also look at the DS209.

Terry

The "J" models are lower end units, I'd stick with either the standard ones or the + models.

Thanks!

But for the price of $199, it seems to be of better value compared to the DNS 323. The average write performance is around 50+ MB/s compared to the 20s MB/s of the Dlink and the read performance is around 55MB/s

[gunrunnerjohn]

Yep, the DS210+ would probably be a better choice.  I'm sure it'll far exceed the DNS-323 in performance.

[Tank_Killer]

I ordered the 210+ once I pair it with the right HD's I will post my results here

[gunrunnerjohn]

Pretty much any decent 5400 or 7200 RPM drive will do the trick.

[tfiveash]

Thanks!

But for the price of $199, it seems to be of better value compared to the DNS 323. The average write performance is around 50+ MB/s compared to the 20s MB/s of the Dlink and the read performance is around 55MB/s

You are correct.  The DS210j would be a better choice than the DNS-323.  The firmware works and they upgrade it on a regular basis. Even though it is not as fast as the DS209 or the DS210+ it still should be pretty quick and since it appears that they use the same base firmware on all models from the end user standpoint you would get the same features as the rest only not as fast.

Terry

[beefy314]

You are correct.  The DS210j would be a better choice than the DNS-323.  The firmware works and they upgrade it on a regular basis. Even though it is not as fast as the DS209 or the DS210+ it still should be pretty quick and since it appears that they use the same base firmware on all models from the end user standpoint you would get the same features as the rest only not as fast.

Terry

Are there any issues with synology? I plan to use it with my NMT(popcorn Hour) via NFS. Currently, I have no problems with my DNS 323 streaming bluray ISOs or BDMN folders. However, I experience stuttering when I use 2 media players and use the DNS to stream content.

Also, can transmission be installed with this synology?

[gunrunnerjohn]

Also, can transmission be installed with this synology?

Apparently, yes: http://forum.synology.com/enu/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=17403

[Clayton]

Actually, I just turned Jumbo frames off and now I have gained another 3.5 MB/second

[mjzglr]

I was able to get ~13MB/s with 9K jumbo frames over FTP on a DNS-321.

SMB was a lot slower <6MB/s. I've narrowed it down to a bug in the 3.028 version of samba.

I'll have to figure out have to get a later version installed. Maybe against the ffp toolchain.

[dosborne]

Have you tried NFS rather than SMB?

[mjzglr]

I was able to fix the problem on my own. The performance problems without a doubt are related to the specific version of samba that comes with the default firmware. The firmware samba version is 3.0.28. I installed the ffp version of samba version 3.3.2. The difference is night and day. Transfers went from 4-5MB/s to >8MB/s on 10/100 ethernet. That's a 50-60% improvement. I wish DLink would get on the ball and update the official firmware with the updated software and add telnet and rsync while they're at it. Their support has been beyond worthless.

Here's my ffp samba section:

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echo "* Disabling samba 3.0.28 ..."
smb stop
echo "* Loading samba 3.3.2 ..."
/ffp/sbin/smbd -s /etc/samba/smb.conf --smb-passwd-file=/etc/samba/smbpasswd
echo "*  OK"

This allows you to use the configuration file from the web. However, I'm pretty sure you have to reboot to get it to take effect since the web config launches the old config script. I'm sure you could modify the "smb" script to fix this as well.