Is this transfer speed correct?

[Gekido]

Hi fellow LTT forummers,

 

I have a question regarding the transfer speed of files from my NAS to my gaming rig. This because I am upgrading my hdd's for more storage. Let me explain how all is connected:

My gaming rig and my NAS are both connected to a gigabit switch, the switch is connected to the modem. Both my gaming rig and NAS are connected to the switch via a CAT6 cable. 

Lowest transfer speed was 45 MB/s and highest was 98,9 MB/s. 

The NAS is a Synology DS218j and has 2 x 1TB WD red 3,5" HDD installed

Now I did test transferring files to the NAS from my gaming rig and the average speed was 99,1 MB/s. 

[thelittleidot]

File transfers over network can be slower compared to local, and the drives in there are likely 5400 rpm which are also slower, I could be wrong.

[Electronics Wizardy]

What is the cpu and disk usage on the synology?

 

Seem expected for a slower nas and slower disks.

[thelittleidot]

8 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

What is the cpu and disk usage on the synology?

 

Seem expected for a slower nas and slower disks.

Its a dual core CPU in it im pretty sure, so not amazing for huge file transfers. I did a massive 600 GB hard drive backup a few days ago on my NAS and experienced even slower speeds. It's expected for non-server storage with minimal processing power.

[Gekido]

Did a test so you guys can see better

 

[thelittleidot]

I think this is just a good ol network and cpu bottleneck, everything else looks fine. There is no way to get around this I don't think, so you will probably have to wait around an hour, I ended up waiting 6 for my 600 GB. No issues with it.

[Gekido]

3 minutes ago, untrustworthy said:

Its a dual core CPU in it im pretty sure, so not amazing for huge file transfers. I did a massive 600 GB hard drive backup a few days ago on my NAS and experienced even slower speeds. It's expected for non-server storage with minimal processing power.

The specs

[thelittleidot]

2 minutes ago, Gekido said:

The specs

 

3 minutes ago, untrustworthy said:

I think this is just a good ol network and cpu bottleneck, everything else looks fine. There is no way to get around this I don't think, so you will probably have to wait around an hour, I ended up waiting 6 for my 600 GB. No issues with it.

Those both correlate, it's expected performance.

 

[hirushaadi]

5 minutes ago, Gekido said:

The specs

getting that speeds with a gigabit netwrok is fine... do it for one large file and see for it to go above 105MBps.. if it does, its fine..

 

even though your wire is CAT6, ur nas only supports 1Gbps

 

or maybe the NIC in your pc is the bottleneck here...

 

when copying many fines, thats fine, if it happens when copying one large file, its not fine

[Gekido]

6 hours ago, hirusha.adikari said:

getting that speeds with a gigabit netwrok is fine... do it for one large file and see for it to go above 105MBps.. if it does, its fine..

 

even though your wire is CAT6, ur nas only supports 1Gbps

 

or maybe the NIC in your pc is the bottleneck here...

 

when copying many fines, thats fine, if it happens when copying one large file, its not fine

the NIC in my pc is set to 1gb/s full duplex.
Checked with 1 file but tops 99,9MB/s

[hirushaadi]

2 hours ago, Gekido said:

the NIC in my pc is set to 1gb/s full duplex.
Checked with 1 file but tops 99,9MB/s

is your wire from a good trusted manufacturer? is somewhere physically damaged 

[Gekido]

1 hour ago, hirusha.adikari said:

is your wire from a good trusted manufacturer? is somewhere physically damaged 

It seems to be working fine...

[Blue4130]

10 hours ago, Gekido said:

the NIC in my pc is set to 1gb/s full duplex.
Checked with 1 file but tops 99,9MB/s

100 megabytes is 800 megabit. Not too bad. 

[hirushaadi]

9 hours ago, Blue4130 said:

100 megabytes is 800 megabit. Not too bad. 

yes! that's very fine if he is moving some photos or something 

 

16 hours ago, Gekido said:

It seems to be working fine

well, thats Mbps and what you said was MBps (Megabit vs Megabyte) and thats ur internet, not the connection to ur NAS

[Master Disaster]

DS218+ owner here, those speeds are pretty close to what mine pulls. I can see 120Mbps if its one big file but generally around 100Mbps is the average.

[WereCatf]

21 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

I can see 120Mbps if its one big file but generally around 100Mbps is the average.

I think you mean MBps. 100Mbps would be just terrible of a modern NAS.

[mariushm]

1gbps is  1,000,000,000 bits  or 125,000,000 bytes  

If you use multiples of 1000, you have a maximum transfer speed of 125 MB/s

If you use multiples of 1024 (what's used by windows to show file sizes), you transfer 119.2 MiB of data per second.

 

With single large file transfers, you should hit at least 120-122 MB/s... but it may depend on where the file is physically placed on the disk platters. 

A 5400 rpm drive 1tb wd red, according to the datasheet below, will peak at 144 MB/s ... so that means it will probably start at around 80-90 MB/s and transfer speed should gradually increase as the read/write heads move over the platters closer to the center of the platters.

Link to wd red datasheet: https://media.flixcar.com/f360cdn/Western_Digital-4141852876-eng_spec_data_sheet_2879-800002.pdf

 

You should try multiple simultaneous connections using  something better that windows shares, like for example  FTP. Set up ftp on your NAS, and install Filezilla ftp client on your pc and try to transfer a bunch of big files at the same time (filezilla lets you transfer up to 10 files at the same time).

 

 

[Master Disaster]

5 minutes ago, WereCatf said:

I think you mean MBps. 100Mbps would be just terrible of a modern NAS.

Hey, its 8am on Sunday morning and I've been up since 6 with a throwing up dog, go easy

[WereCatf]

5 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

Hey, its 8am on Sunday morning and I've been up since 6 with a throwing up dog, go easy

Butbutbut...your nickname would indicate you're especially good at handling disasters! Should be no biggie for you!