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[QuantumCat]

Hi there,
I bought the D-Link DNS-320 as a budget NAS with -supposedly- decent performance. I hooked up to my router and... I find it VERY slow.

My wi-fi to NAS transferspeeds range from 20KB/s to 1.5MB/s -those are USB1 speeds!
Taking in account the Wifi speeds and the fact that it is not the most expensive NAS, I expected somewhere around 2-3 MB/s.

I'm inclined to return and buy a more expensive one...but since reviews by users claim to get anything between 8 and 20Mb/s depending on file size, I'm willing to check if the bottleneck is outside the NAS.

Any ideas on how to speed up things?

( I haven't tested it NAS to PC over LAN yet, will do that tomorrow )

[RicRoller]

Join the club! 

Certainly worth trying with gigabit LAN connection to eliminate the Wifi as a source of the bottleneck (although the PC's status may show 100Mbit or more data rate you may get substantially less if the signal's not perfect or there's interference from other networks).

The latest official DNS-320 firmware 2.03 has a slow read performance issue reported by several users, however write performance is OK. If your unit has the 2.03 firmware you could get much better read performance by downgrading it to the previous official release 2.02 - however in that release there is the potential for data corruption under some situations, in particular if using file copying accelerators such as Teracopy or if doing heavy random write access such as to a database or a Microsoft Outlook personal folders file. That said, I rolled my DNS-320 back from 2.03 to 2.02 and have successfully archived nearly 1TB of stuff onto it (bog-standard file copy using Windows Explorer) and didn't have any problem.

HTH
Richard