NASLite Network Attached Storage

Wilbur,

My nas is nearly all new, oldest thing it the Cpu everything else is new.
MB is less then a year old. 800mhz cpu, onboard lan, 256mb ram,
my network is 100mb.

Although i get the hear beat monitor type of screen, my transfers are fast 1gb in 3 mins, gonna carry out some more tests.

And I have no problem with streaning dvd content of the nas.

Update: done some more tests and i am getting a solid block during the transfer both ways, no idea why i had the peaks and drops before,
as before i would copy from the pc to nas and peaks and drops then copy back to the pc again to its solid then back again and peaks and drops

edeng

OK I'll do some more checks on my system tonight after work and I'll change the network cable. I'll post back with any findings.
Thanks for your input.

regards

Wilbur

Hi wilbur.

The only reason that you get a saw tooth pattern like that is slow IDE transfers. The cause is that the network transfers the data faster than the disk can write it. The buffer gets filled (spike), then transfer stops and waits for the drive to finish writing. Perhaps the IDE controller on that board is in fact slow. I would think that ATA-66 (I think that’s what you had) would be sufficient, but apparently that’s not the case.

I’ll get some numbers from the NASLite server I use at home (ASUS Terminator C3) and post them in the following days. That should provide a good reference point. I will say that using that box I do get FTP transfers of over 90% 100T. Although due to overhead, SMB/CIFS is considerably slower (70% or so), any performance expectations above that will be trivial.

Tony,

I had a sneaking feeling it was my IDE transfers, thanks to you and edeng for your help, I will get my NAS box upgraded in the next couple of weeks, It was on my list of things to do and see how a more up to date system copes with trying to transfer high speed high volume data, it is very impressive that NASlite transfers as well as it does with the old hardware and is a credit to all at Server Elements I am very pleased with the software side of things and never doubted NASlites ability to perform, but I'm asking too much of the hardware.