How fast does your NAS transfer data?

[officiallyasimulator]

Hey guys, i am looking into getting a NAS, to store all of my tv shows, movies and music. and i was wondering, you people that use a NAS kinda like this one, http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=617&products_id=21198   how fast does your nas transfer your data. also, what drive should i use.

 

also, what is the speed limitation on an ethernet cord?

[lani100]

Too slow

[UltraNeonGaming]

I don't have a NAS so I can't say the speed, but for drives I would get a WD Red or a Seagate NAS HDD

[QueenDemetria]

Hey guys, i am looking into getting a NAS, to store all of my tv shows, movies and music. and i was wondering, you people that use a NAS kinda like this one, http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=617&products_id=21198   how fast does your nas transfer your data. also, what drive should i use.

 

also, what is the speed limitation on an ethernet cord?

I have a PC as a NAS, but I only have 2 HDD's in Raid 5. Write speeds are around 80MB/s while read speeds are around 200MB/s. I have a 2 port NIC so I can get these speeds(mostly the read). Gigabit ethernet is limited to 1000mbps or 125MB/s, so speeds are pretty decent(however becoming pretty slow when compared to Sata and thunderbolt).

[officiallyasimulator]

I have a PC as a NAS, but I only have 2 HDD's in Raid 5. Write speeds are around 80MB/s while read speeds are around 200MB/s I have a 2 port NIC so I can get these speeds(mostly the read). Gigabit ethernet is limited to 1000mbps or 125MB/s, so speeds are pretty decent(however becoming pretty slow when compared to Sata and thunderbolt).

well considering my laptops drive reads at 80mb/s that is good enough.

 

EDIT: is there any other way of transferring the data?

[QueenDemetria]

well considering my laptops drive reads at 80mb/s that is good enough.

Yeah its not bad, but with 10 gigabit just sitting there looking at us its hard to call gigabit fast lol. Also I forgot what drives I use(HGST I believe), but WD Reds and HGST drives are pretty good.

[officiallyasimulator]

Yeah its not bad, but with 10 gigabit just sitting there looking at us its hard to call gigabit fast lol. Also I forgot what drives I use(HGST I believe), but WD Reds and HGST drives are pretty good.

yeah. im thinking the WD reds, but they are kinda expensive ($85 for 1tb) so i was thinking about getting a blue or a seagate barracuda (both $65 for 1tb) is it worth the premium for more peace of mind?

[QueenDemetria]

yeah. im thinking the WD reds, but they are kinda expensive ($85 for 1tb) so i was thinking about getting a blue or a seagate barracuda (both $65 for 1tb) is it worth the premium for more peace of mind?

From my experience: Not really. I have used standard desktop drives in my "servers" and they have held up fine. Its only with extremely  heavy usage when they fail.

[officiallyasimulator]

From my experience: Not really. I have used standard desktop drives in my "servers" and they have held up fine. Its only with extremely  heavy usage when they fail.

it would be a one time transfer pretty much, then just reads when i want to watch a movie like once or twice a month maybe.and the occasional top gear episode.

[QueenDemetria]

it would be a one time transfer pretty much, then just reads when i want to watch a movie like once or twice a month maybe.and the occasional top gear episode.

With that usage you will be fine to get standard desktop drives.

[officiallyasimulator]

With that usage you will be fine to get standard desktop drives.

ok ,now the question is, which drive. 

[Blade of Grass]

I'm an advocate for running drives designed for NAS/server in your NAS/server.

I personally run 4x 3TB Seagate NAS drives (running in RAID 6) in my server.

Both Seagate NAS and WD Red drives are a great choices for your NAS, so IMHO get whichever is cheaper.

[EmeraldFlame]

yeah. im thinking the WD reds, but they are kinda expensive ($85 for 1tb) so i was thinking about getting a blue or a seagate barracuda (both $65 for 1tb) is it worth the premium for more peace of mind?

 

Damn Australia has some high prices on WD Red's. Here in the us just a few months ago I picked up 4x 3TB WD Red's for $90 a pop.

[Pidagad]

I have 5 x 2TB Seagate in my NAS and gigabit is nearly always the limit (-> ~120MB/s). I use an dualcore A6-5400K, 8GB of ram and linux software-raid 5.

[handruin]

With 8 x 4TB drives I'm able to see speeds in the 1.2GB/sec range on writes and 1.3GB/sec on reads with sustained transfer of data (yes...1.2 gigabytes/sec).  I'm using ZFS and 64kb block size on a 60GB file size (to exceed the size of RAM in order to remove caching in RAM).  Outside the NAS I'm limited by the NIC at 1Gb.

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[Real_PhillBert]

I have a PC as a NAS, but I only have 2 HDD's in Raid 5. Write speeds are around 80MB/s while read speeds are around 200MB/s. I have a 2 port NIC so I can get these speeds(mostly the read). Gigabit ethernet is limited to 1000mbps or 125MB/s, so speeds are pretty decent(however becoming pretty slow when compared to Sata and thunderbolt).

Wait, what?

 

Dont you need a minimum of 3 drives to use raid 5? You can have 0 or 1 with two drives.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_RAID_levels#RAID_5

 

Wiki also says 3 drives is the minimum. 

[handruin]

Wait, what?

 

Dont you need a minimum of 3 drives to use raid 5? You can have 0 or 1 with two drives.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_RAID_levels#RAID_5

 

Wiki also says 3 drives is the minimum. 

 

The only way I could see this happening is if a RAID 5 was built with 3 drives and then one was pulled for some reason.  Now the array is living on borrowed time while calculating parity on the fly while using 2 drives.

[Real_PhillBert]

The only way I could see this happening is if a RAID 5 was built with 3 drives and then one was pulled for some reason.  Now the array is living on borrowed time while calculating parity on the fly while using 2 drives.

Good point. If a drive was present and has since died or been removed it would make sense.

[QueenDemetria]

Wait, what?

 

Dont you need a minimum of 3 drives to use raid 5? You can have 0 or 1 with two drives.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_RAID_levels#RAID_5

 

Wiki also says 3 drives is the minimum. 

Yeah I double checked yesterday when OP asked a similar question and come to find out its only Raid 1. I had a raid 5 set up back when I had 4 250Gb HDD's, but apparently I only set it up as a raid 1 when I upgraded to 4 1Tb HDD's(I must have known that my WD drives would fail, lol).

[Real_PhillBert]

Yeah I double checked yesterday when OP asked a similar question and come to find out its only Raid 1. I had a raid 5 set up back when I had 4 250Gb HDD's, but apparently I only set it up as a raid 1 when I upgraded to 4 1Tb HDD's(I must have known that my WD drives would fail, lol).

Which drives failed? Blues? Reds?

[QueenDemetria]

Which drives failed? Blues? Reds?

Blues, these were the go-to nas drives back in the day(since Reds weren't even a thought back then). Its funny because it seems like everything I get from Newegg prematurely fails, so I made a bet with my dad that drives from Microcenter would out last Newegg drives. I won the bet, because the first Newegg drive died at the 2 month mark and the second one died at roughly 9 months. The funny thing is that the Microcenter drives have been running 24/7 for a little over 4 years. I was going to replace the dead drives, but at this point it would make more sense to save up for higher capacity drives and a Sata 3 raid card. Keep in mind that this was back when Newegg gave 0 care for packaging, so this could be the reason for the drive failure.

[handruin]

Blues, these were the go-to nas drives back in the day(since Reds weren't even a thought back then). Its funny because it seems like everything I get from Newegg prematurely fails, so I made a bet with my dad that drives from Microcenter would out last Newegg drives. I won the bet, because the first Newegg drive died at the 2 month mark and the second one died at roughly 9 months. The funny thing is that the Microcenter drives have been running 24/7 for a little over 4 years. I was going to replace the dead drives, but at this point it would make more sense to save up for higher capacity drives and a Sata 3 raid card. Keep in mind that this was back when Newegg gave 0 care for packaging, so this could be the reason for the drive failure.

 

For a long time I stopped buying my drives from newegg because of their lack of care and switched to Amazon.  Even if a drive came DOA I still have pay return shipping at newegg whereas Amazon I didn't.

 

My latest drives I actually did buy from newegg.  The HGST 4TB NAS drives come in retail packaging which eased some of my concern.  I ordered enough that they sent them in their crate that came from HGST which was nothing more than an additional cardboard box around 5 of the drives.  Time will tell how they hold up.

[Real_PhillBert]

Blues, these were the go-to nas drives back in the day(since Reds weren't even a thought back then). Its funny because it seems like everything I get from Newegg prematurely fails, so I made a bet with my dad that drives from Microcenter would out last Newegg drives. I won the bet, because the first Newegg drive died at the 2 month mark and the second one died at roughly 9 months. The funny thing is that the Microcenter drives have been running 24/7 for a little over 4 years. I was going to replace the dead drives, but at this point it would make more sense to save up for higher capacity drives and a Sata 3 raid card. Keep in mind that this was back when Newegg gave 0 care for packaging, so this could be the reason for the drive failure.

I will agree that Microcenter drives are the way to go. I find myself near a microcenter about once a month and try my hardest to take advantage.

 

I have never really cared for the idea of UPS shipping hard drives around. they dont have that much care for anything that goes on the truck.

[QueenDemetria]

Even if a drive came DOA I still have pay return shipping at newegg whereas Amazon I didn't.

That was one of the reasons why the drives never got replaced, lol. Hopefully your HGST drives hold up for a long time .

 

I have never really cared for the idea of UPS shipping hard drives around. they dont have that much care for anything that goes on the truck.

I bought a monitor from Newegg and it arrived with a huge hole going through the box and right through the monitor lol. I didn't sign for the monitor but the driver still left it at my door. I showed Newegg and they actually waived the restocking fee lol(Ironically the replacement they sent also arrived broken, but glue was an easy fix.).