NASLite Network Attached Storage

I was copying some files to my NAS box and was wondering just how well it performs.

Now I just copied a 5.28 GB folder (171 files) from my local computer to my NAS box and it only took me 9:45 seconds. I don't have a gigbit NIC in the NAS box and it runs thru a Belkin Wireless G router. I have a 3.2GHz Pent 4 on an ASUS P5AD2 Deluxe with 1 Gb of RAM. The drives are WD5002ABYS using the onboard controller. I didn't test read performance but I was streaming music from the NAS at the same time with no hiccups.

I am seeing that as 9MB/sec is that right? While that doesnt seem slow compared to those CNET charts (see the end). I see alot of people listing that they get as much as 20MB/sec 40MB/sec or 50MB/sec. What can I do to improve the speed? I know I could get a faster router/NIC but when I am only at 9/MB that doesn't seem to be the limiting factor.

Here is my startup log. Any ideas??

Aug 18 23:14:07 [3] klogd started: BusyBox v1.01 (2008.07.26-02:54+0000)
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] Processor #0 Unknown CPU [15:3] APIC version 20
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x01] enabled)
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] Processor #1 Unknown CPU [15:3] APIC version 20
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] global_irq_base[0x0])
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] IOAPIC[0]: Assigned apic_id 2
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 32, address 0xfec00000, IRQ 0-23
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level)
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level)
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] Kernel command line: rw root=/dev/ram0 initrd=NASLite.02 quiet BOOT_IMAGE=NASLite.01
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] Initializing CPU#0
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] Detected 3211.502 MHz processor.
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] Calibrating delay loop. 6409.42 BogoMIPS
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] Memory: 1027548k/1048256k available (2326k kernel code, 20320k reserved, 684k data, 560k init, 130752k highmem)
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] Inode cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] Buffer cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] Page-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 16K
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] CPU: L2 cache: 1024K
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] Intel machine check architecture supported.
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] CPU: After generic, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] CPU: Common caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz stepping 04
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] Enabling fast FPU save and restore. done.
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support. done.
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] Checking 'hlt' instruction. OK.
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] init IO_APIC IRQs
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] IO-APIC (apicid-pin) 2-0, 2-16, 2-17, 2-18, 2-19, 2-20, 2-21, 2-22, 2-23 not connected.
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=-1
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] Using local APIC timer interrupts.
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] calibrating APIC timer .
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] . CPU clock speed is 3211.3682 MHz.
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] . host bus clock speed is 200.7104 MHz.
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] cpu: 0, clocks: 2007104, slice: 1003552
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] CPU0
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0031, last bus=3
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] PCI: Using configuration type 1
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] ACPI: Interpreter enabled
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] ACPI: System [ACPI] (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5)
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 00:1f.1
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] Transparent bridge - PCI device 8086:244e
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.P0P1._PRT]
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.P0P3._PRT]
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.P0P4._PRT]
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15)
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs *3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] 00:00:01[A] -> 2-16 -> IRQ 16 level low
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] 00:00:01[B] -> 2-17 -> IRQ 17 level low
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] 00:00:01[C] -> 2-18 -> IRQ 18 level low
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] 00:00:01[D] -> 2-19 -> IRQ 19 level low
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] 00:00:1d[A] -> 2-23 -> IRQ 23 level low
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] 00:00:1e[B] -> 2-20 -> IRQ 20 level low
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] 00:01:0b[A] -> 2-22 -> IRQ 22 level low
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] -21 -> IRQ 21 level low
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] number of MP IRQ sources: 17.
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] number of IO-APIC #2 registers: 24.
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] testing the IO APIC.
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4]
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] IO APIC #2
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] register #00: 02000000
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] . : physical APIC id: 02
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] . : Delivery Type: 0
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] . : LTS : 0
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] register #01: 00170020
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] . : max redirection entries: 0017
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] . : PRQ implemented: 0
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] . : IO APIC version: 0020
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] IRQ redirection table:
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] NR Log Phy Mask Trig IRR Pol Stat Dest Deli Vect:
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] 00 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] 01 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 39
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] 02 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 31
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] 03 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 41
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] 04 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 49
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] 05 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 51
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] 06 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 59
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] 07 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 61
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] 08 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 69
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] 09 001 01 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 71
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] 0a 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 79
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] 0b 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 81
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] 0c 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 89
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] 0d 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 91
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] 0e 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 99
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] 0f 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 A1
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] 10 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 A9
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] 11 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 B1
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] 12 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 B9
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] 13 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 C1
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] 14 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 D1
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] 15 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 E1
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] 16 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 D9
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] 17 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 C9
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] IRQ to pin mappings:
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] IRQ0 -> 0:2
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] IRQ1 -> 0:1
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] IRQ3 -> 0:3
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] IRQ4 -> 0:4
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] IRQ5 -> 0:5
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] IRQ6 -> 0:6
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] IRQ7 -> 0:7
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] IRQ8 -> 0:8
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] IRQ9 -> 0:9
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] IRQ10 -> 0:10
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] IRQ11 -> 0:11
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] IRQ12 -> 0:12
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] IRQ13 -> 0:13
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] IRQ14 -> 0:14
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] IRQ15 -> 0:15
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] IRQ16 -> 0:16
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] IRQ17 -> 0:17
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] IRQ18 -> 0:18
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] IRQ19 -> 0:19
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] IRQ20 -> 0:20
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] IRQ21 -> 0:21
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] IRQ22 -> 0:22
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] IRQ23 -> 0:23
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] done.
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] Initializing RT netlink socket
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] Starting kswapd
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] allocated 32 pages and 32 bhs reserved for the highmem bounces
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] Journalled Block Device driver loaded
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] devfs: boot_options: 0x1
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports C1, 8 throttling states)
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] ACPI: Processor [CPU2] (supports C1)
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] Real Time Clock Driver v1.10f
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present?(ed)
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present?(f4)
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 7.3.20-k4
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation.
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] dgrs: SW=$Id: dgrs.c,v 1.13 2000/06/06 04:07:00 rick Exp $ FW=Build 550 11/16/96 03:45:15
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] FW Version=$Version$
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] 3c59x: Donald Becker and others. http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] 01:0b.0: 3Com PCI 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at 0xcc00. Vers LK1.1.18
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] pcnet32.c:v1.30h 06.24.2004 tsbogend@alpha.franken.de
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] ThunderLAN driver v1.15
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] TLAN: 0 devices installed, PCI: 0 EISA: 0
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] dmfe: Davicom DM9xxx net driver, version 1.36.4 (2002-01-17)
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] ns83820.c: National Semiconductor DP83820 10/100/1000 driver.
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] sk98lin: No adapter found.
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.50.
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] ICH6: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:1f.1
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] ICH6: chipset revision 3
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] be irqs later
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:DMA
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] hdb: MATSHITADVD-ROM SR-8588, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] hdb: attached ide-cdrom driver.
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] hdb: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] Loading Adaptec I2O RAID: Version 2.4 Build 5
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] Detecting Adaptec I2O RAID controllers.
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] Red Hat/Adaptec aacraid driver (1.1-3 Jan 12 2009 23:06:00)
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] scsi: Detection failed (no card)
Aug 18 23:14:07 [3] megaraid: v2.10.10.1 (Release Date: Thu Jan 27 16:19:44 EDT 2005)
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] GDT-HA: Storage RAID Controller Driver. Version: 3.04
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] GDT-HA: Found 0 PCI Storage RAID Controllers
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] scsi1 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] 3ware Storage Controller device driver for Linux v1.02.00.037.
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] 3w-xxxx: No cards found.
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] libata version 1.20 loaded.
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] PCI(00:1f.2): version 1.2
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1f.2 to 64
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] PCI(00:1f.2): AHCI 0001.0000 32 slots 4 ports 1.5 Gbps 0xf impl IDE mode
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] PCI(00:1f.2): flags: 64bit ncq pm led slum part
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF8810D00 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 19
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF8810D80 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 19
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF8810E00 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 19
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF8810E80 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 19
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:746b 83:7f61 84:4163 85:7469 86:be41 87:4163 88:207f
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] ata1: dev 0 ATA-8, max UDMA/133, 976773168 sectors: LBA48
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] ata2: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:746b 83:7f61 84:4163 85:7469 86:be41 87:4163 88:207f
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] ata2: dev 0 ATA-8, max UDMA/133, 976773168 sectors: LBA48
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] ata2: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] ata3: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] ata4: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:746b 83:7f61 84:4163 85:7469 86:be41 87:4163 88:207f
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] ata4: dev 0 ATA-8, max UDMA/133, 976773168 sectors: LBA48
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] ata4: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] scsi2 : ahci
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] scsi3 : ahci
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] scsi4 : ahci
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] scsi5 : ahci
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] Vendor: ATA Model: WDC WD5002ABYS-0 Rev: 02.0
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] Vendor: ATA Model: WDC WD5002ABYS-0 Rev: 02.0
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] Vendor: ATA Model: WDC WD5002ABYS-0 Rev: 02.0
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] PCI(01:05.0): version 0.9
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] ata5: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xF8812880 ctl 0xF881288A bmdma 0xF8812800 irq 22
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] ata6: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xF88128C0 ctl 0xF88128CA bmdma 0xF8812808 irq 22
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] ata7: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xF8812A80 ctl 0xF8812A8A bmdma 0xF8812A00 irq 22
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] ata8: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xF8812AC0 ctl 0xF8812ACA bmdma 0xF8812A08 irq 22
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] ata5: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] ata6: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] ata7: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] ata8: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] scsi6 : sata_sil
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] scsi7 : sata_sil
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] scsi8 : sata_sil
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] scsi9 : sata_sil
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] Attached scsi disk sda at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] Attached scsi disk sdc at scsi5, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] SCSI device sda: 976773168 512-byte hdwr sectors (500108 MB)
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] Partition check:
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] SCSI device sdb: 976773168 512-byte hdwr sectors (500108 MB)
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] /dev/scsi/host3/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] SCSI device sdc: 976773168 512-byte hdwr sectors (500108 MB)
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] /dev/scsi/host5/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] ohci1394: $Rev: 1045 $ Ben Collins
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] ohci1394_0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[21] MMIO=[cfeff000-cfeff7ff] Max Packet=[2048]
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] sbp2: $Rev: 1074 $ Ben Collins
Aug 18 23:14:07 [5] ieee1394: sbp2: Driver forced to serialize I/O (serialize_io = 1)
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] usb.c: registered new driver hub
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.7 to 64
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] 7: PCI device 8086:265c
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] ehci_hcd 00:1d.7: irq 23, pci mem f8818800
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] ehci_hcd 00:1d.7: enabled 64bit PCI DMA
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] PCI: cache line size of 128 is not supported by device 00:1d.7
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] ehci_hcd 00:1d.7: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2003-Dec-29/2.4
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] hub.c: USB hub found
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] hub.c: 8 ports detected
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] host/uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.0 to 64
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] host/uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x9880, IRQ 23
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] hub.c: USB hub found
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] hub.c: 2 ports detected
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.1 to 64
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] host/uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x9c00, IRQ 19
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[00e01800008f00e7]
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] hub.c: USB hub found
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] hub.c: 2 ports detected
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.2 to 64
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] host/uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xa000, IRQ 18
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] hub.c: USB hub found
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] hub.c: 2 ports detected
Aug 18 23:14:07 [1] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.3 to 64
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] host/uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xa080, IRQ 16
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] hub.c: USB hub found
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] hub.c: 2 ports detected
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] usb.c: registered new driver usbkbd
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] usbkbd.c: :USB HID Boot Protocol keyboard driver
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver.
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] USB Mass Storage support registered.
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 buckets, 64Kbytes
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
Aug 18 23:14:07 [3] RAMDISK: NASLite file system found at block 0
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] [truncated]
Aug 18 23:14:07 [4] VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] Mounted devfs on /dev
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] Freeing unused kernel memory: 560k freed
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on sd(8,1), internal journal
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on sd(8,17), internal journal
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on sd(8,33), internal journal
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Aug 18 23:14:07 [2] Adding Swap: 1048568k swap-space (priority -1)
Aug 18 23:15:38 [2] eth0: Setting full-duplex based on MII #24 link partner capability of 01e1.


http://reviews.cnet.com/external-hard-d ... =mncol;txt scroll to the bottom

Transfer speed tests (min:sec)
5GB read test (min:sec) 5GB write test (min:sec)
Buffalo TeraStation Home Server**
15:00 24:56
HP Media Vault MV2020
15:12 13:25
Iomega StorCenter Pro 150d
15:22 13:59
Iomega StorCenter Wireless NAS drive*
17:32 19:01
Maxtor Shared Storage Plus
21:19 23:34
Western Digital NetCenter
21:56 23:27
Western Digital MyBook World Edition
30:13 31:30

With a 100mbit NIC, I think that your observer 9MB/s when streaming at the same time is pretty good. The 20MB/s to 40MB/s figures that you have seen will be for servers with gigabit NICs.

First off, your numbers don't work out for your transfer volume and time.

With 100Mb/sec NICs getting ~9MB/sec is in the ball park for the limits of the interface.

If you are looking for more speed, 20-40MB/sec you are going to have to get a Gigabit NIC and Switch and drop the G WiFi. G WiFi is at best 108Mb/sec using all the same hardware manufacturer for your wireless fabric. Go with CAT5e if at all possible and hard wire the connections to remove the basic limits of the underlying network.

Some drives are capable of reading at 30-40MB/sec sustained but to really get into the 50-80MB/sec range you will need a hardware RAID card and multiple drives in a RAID0 or RAID5 implementation. RAID5 is recommended as you have at least some data protection from a failed drive.

Mike

What can I say, I was always lousy at math. But the file size and time are correct give or take 5 seconds.

It is a wireless G router but it has 4 hard wired ports and I am running this on CAT5E UTP wire that I ran thru the attic. So I am not actually using the wireless function of the router but the hard wired side. Sorry for the confusion. I used a wireless router because I wanted to use my laptop as well. But you are correct that I could get a gigabit switch and nic and it sounds like those two are my limiting factor. I have my NAS setup to mirror one drive to another and then I have all files duplicated back onto my computer as well.

Thanks for the help.

I see.

You got the best advice I got for you.

Mike