Saturday 28 December 2019

performance - What might limit data transfer rate to NAS?


I have two NAS (Buffalo Linkstation Pro, WD MyBook World), which are connected to 2 PCs with a Gigabit LAN connection. All devices are in "Gigabit mode", meaning all show that their connection speed is really 1 GBit. But the transfer rates to and from the NAS drives are very low, on average 5 MByte/sec, copying large files with several GByte in size.


Looking at the spec of the Buffalo drive, it should do up to 30 MBytes/sec. Of course, this is probably a best case scenario, but I think more than what I have right now should be possible.


Copying files between the two PCs is much faster, about 25 MBytes/sec.


What could limit the data transfer? What can I do to increase it?



Answer



The WD MyBook World is CPU-bound or disk-controller-bound. If you do an online search for the throughput of the first versions of MBW, you will find that 5MB/s is quite common. There is nothing you can do about this.


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