Posted February 6, 2021 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 6, 2021 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. Main System: CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (OC) Motherboard - Asus ROG Strix B450-F Gaming II RAM - Crucial Ballistix 3200 Mhz 16 GB (8x2) GPU - Asus Dual RTX2060 12GB Case - Corsair 4000D Airflow Storage - Crucial BX500 480 GB - Seagate BarraCuda 7200 RPM 2 TB PSU - PowerSpec 650 Watt 80 Plus Bronze (looking for replacement, its loud) Cooler - Hyper 212 Evo with two RGB fans NAS: CPU: AMD Athlon II X4 640 (had on hand) Motherboard: HP Slimline S5610F Motherboard from Ebay RAM: EVGA Superclocked 16gb Storage: 2x 4TB WD Blue and old asf caviar se16 250gb because I had it and its worked for so long I don't trust anything else as much GPU: Integrated on the mobo Case: Old PowerSpec case from Micro Center (that can hold 8 hard drives) PSU: EVGA W3 500W Cooler: AMD stock cooler at PS4 RPM's that keeps the cpu at 14-24 degrees Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 6, 2021 What is the cpu and disk usage on the synology? Seem expected for a slower nas and slower disks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 6, 2021 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. Main System: CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (OC) Motherboard - Asus ROG Strix B450-F Gaming II RAM - Crucial Ballistix 3200 Mhz 16 GB (8x2) GPU - Asus Dual RTX2060 12GB Case - Corsair 4000D Airflow Storage - Crucial BX500 480 GB - Seagate BarraCuda 7200 RPM 2 TB PSU - PowerSpec 650 Watt 80 Plus Bronze (looking for replacement, its loud) Cooler - Hyper 212 Evo with two RGB fans NAS: CPU: AMD Athlon II X4 640 (had on hand) Motherboard: HP Slimline S5610F Motherboard from Ebay RAM: EVGA Superclocked 16gb Storage: 2x 4TB WD Blue and old asf caviar se16 250gb because I had it and its worked for so long I don't trust anything else as much GPU: Integrated on the mobo Case: Old PowerSpec case from Micro Center (that can hold 8 hard drives) PSU: EVGA W3 500W Cooler: AMD stock cooler at PS4 RPM's that keeps the cpu at 14-24 degrees Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 6, 2021 Author Did a test so you guys can see better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 6, 2021 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. Main System: CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (OC) Motherboard - Asus ROG Strix B450-F Gaming II RAM - Crucial Ballistix 3200 Mhz 16 GB (8x2) GPU - Asus Dual RTX2060 12GB Case - Corsair 4000D Airflow Storage - Crucial BX500 480 GB - Seagate BarraCuda 7200 RPM 2 TB PSU - PowerSpec 650 Watt 80 Plus Bronze (looking for replacement, its loud) Cooler - Hyper 212 Evo with two RGB fans NAS: CPU: AMD Athlon II X4 640 (had on hand) Motherboard: HP Slimline S5610F Motherboard from Ebay RAM: EVGA Superclocked 16gb Storage: 2x 4TB WD Blue and old asf caviar se16 250gb because I had it and its worked for so long I don't trust anything else as much GPU: Integrated on the mobo Case: Old PowerSpec case from Micro Center (that can hold 8 hard drives) PSU: EVGA W3 500W Cooler: AMD stock cooler at PS4 RPM's that keeps the cpu at 14-24 degrees Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 6, 2021 Author 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 6, 2021 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. Main System: CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (OC) Motherboard - Asus ROG Strix B450-F Gaming II RAM - Crucial Ballistix 3200 Mhz 16 GB (8x2) GPU - Asus Dual RTX2060 12GB Case - Corsair 4000D Airflow Storage - Crucial BX500 480 GB - Seagate BarraCuda 7200 RPM 2 TB PSU - PowerSpec 650 Watt 80 Plus Bronze (looking for replacement, its loud) Cooler - Hyper 212 Evo with two RGB fans NAS: CPU: AMD Athlon II X4 640 (had on hand) Motherboard: HP Slimline S5610F Motherboard from Ebay RAM: EVGA Superclocked 16gb Storage: 2x 4TB WD Blue and old asf caviar se16 250gb because I had it and its worked for so long I don't trust anything else as much GPU: Integrated on the mobo Case: Old PowerSpec case from Micro Center (that can hold 8 hard drives) PSU: EVGA W3 500W Cooler: AMD stock cooler at PS4 RPM's that keeps the cpu at 14-24 degrees Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 6, 2021 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 hey! i know to use a computer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 6, 2021 Author 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 6, 2021 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 hey! i know to use a computer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 6, 2021 Author 1 hour ago, hirusha.adikari said: is your wire from a good trusted manufacturer? is somewhere physically damaged It seems to be working fine... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 6, 2021 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 7, 2021 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 hey! i know to use a computer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 7, 2021 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. Main Rig:- Ryzen 7 3800X | Asus ROG Strix X570-F Gaming | 16GB Team Group Dark Pro 3600Mhz | Corsair MP600 1TB PCIe Gen 4 | Sapphire 5700 XT Pulse | Corsair H115i Platinum | WD Black 1TB | WD Green 4TB | EVGA SuperNOVA G3 650W | Asus TUF GT501 | Samsung C27HG70 1440p 144hz HDR FreeSync 2 | Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS | Server:- Intel NUC running Server 2019 + Synology DSM218+ with 2 x 4TB Toshiba NAS Ready HDDs (RAID0) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 7, 2021 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. Hand, n. A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody’s pocket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 7, 2021 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). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 7, 2021 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 Main Rig:- Ryzen 7 3800X | Asus ROG Strix X570-F Gaming | 16GB Team Group Dark Pro 3600Mhz | Corsair MP600 1TB PCIe Gen 4 | Sapphire 5700 XT Pulse | Corsair H115i Platinum | WD Black 1TB | WD Green 4TB | EVGA SuperNOVA G3 650W | Asus TUF GT501 | Samsung C27HG70 1440p 144hz HDR FreeSync 2 | Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS | Server:- Intel NUC running Server 2019 + Synology DSM218+ with 2 x 4TB Toshiba NAS Ready HDDs (RAID0) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 7, 2021 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! Hand, n. A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody’s pocket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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