NASLite Network Attached Storage

Hi,

I just installed new gigabit router, switch and a couple of NIC's to bring my network up to gigabit speed. 2 PC's, 1 iMac and NASLite-2 CDD (80G + 320G).

I would like to use the NAS box as main storage for all computers and would like to get the best speed in order to directly work off of the NAS unit. I have seen a few performance posts here in the forum. But does anybody have any idea what kind of performance I should get? Approx? At least? At most?

Maybe we should have a survey to post to or a thread of environments and what performance people are getting.

Thanks for the info.

DW

And how it should be measured.

I consistently get 130mbps sometimes even more, when I do complete drive transfers from my external USB hardcdrive.

I think what your looking at dsmith is composite average which may not be the correct figure. Write speeds are about 11.5MBytes per sec no matter what size cpu (200 or better) with at least 128mb ram. Now this is through a lan segment and this didn't change even after switching from 10/100 to 10/100/1000 and I laso have a gigabit switch. I have ran extensive benchmarks.

moving large files I get 35 to 45 megabytes per second.

Smaller files your mileage may vary.

This is on an amd 2100+ with 256 meg of ram and western digital 250gb hard drives.

cheers,
Wes

Can you post some benchmarks? What did you use to benchmark with?

I'll post up everything tonight when I get home.

Wes

Linux 2.4.33.NASLite #1 Tue Aug 15 01:08:13 UTC 2006

TOTAL USED FREE BUFFERS USAGE
249M 190M 58M 7M

CPU MODEL VENDOR MHZ BOGOMIPS CACHE
i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ AuthenticAMD 1733.338 3460.30 256 KB






avg 40MB/Sec

When I get some free time I will upload some images as well; I was not using Admin tools in XP. The program I use is 'dumeter'.

Hi burthold,

How was/is your network configured?

Thanks

gige switch nothing funny no jumbo frames or the like.

What make of switch?

I use a Netgear 5 port, version 2, which has jumbo support, but we're stuck at 1500 packet size with Naslite I think, so makes no difference.

I've also borrowed a SMC 5 port giga', but seems about the same performance.

Still, I get nowhere near your throughput, so what's your secret?

I am getting 26mb/sec not quite what I was expecting. need to check out a few things. Running a Gs605 gig Switch and two Ga311 nics and Cat6 cables.

d-link gcs 1016d I think 16 ports un managed nothing spectacular at all. It's been solid since I put it last year.

The nas is running an intel gigabit adapter pro/1000 GT.

Wes

As promised..

I was pulling a file from the NASlite box, to our server.