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Grumpa
PostPosted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 8:29 pm 
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During beta did you notice/measure any drive performance characterisitcs that would lead you to lean towards (for example) 4 internal IDE disks, versus 4 external USB or Firewire drives, or some mixture of either? Encounter any USB bottlenecks? Thanks ...
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pszilard
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Grumpa wrote:
During beta did you notice/measure any drive performance characterisitcs that would lead you to lean towards (for example) 4 internal IDE disks, versus 4 external USB or Firewire drives, or some mixture of either? Encounter any USB bottlenecks? Thanks ...


Anyone got any data for this post?

I am finding a strange performance issue, which I am hoping can be fixed by some configuration, or other. Note all following data is Mbits/sec.

I am comparing a NASLITE1+ and a NASLITE2-USB system both with GIG NICs connected to an XP PC also with GIG NIC, and of course hooked up via a GIG switch. The NASLITE2 box is using a Promise Rocketraid 1640 card with 4x SATA drives, working as non-raid.

Transferring to NASLITE1 to/from XP I can hit peak speeds of 120 Mbps and a sustained speed of around 70 Mbps. The same test to NASLITE2-USB only run at around 10 Mbps peak and 3 Mbps average!!!

What could be the reason? Is it the Promise card?
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pszilard
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Well, most interestingly after leaving my NASLite2 server idle all day while I was out, it had done something, because when I ran another test it hit 150 Mbps!!!
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smeyer
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Maybe SMART testing is slowing things down for a while when you first power up.
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Tony
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Just a note - NASLite-2 does not execute extended smart testing on boot as NASLite v1.x did. Extended smart testing is now a manually initiated procedure.
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