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What kind of sustained transfer speed might I expect from the 323 when reading or writing files across a gigabit network to an external USB2 hard drive connected to it?
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I'd guestimate at 170 mbps or thereabouts - could be less - and if you have jumbo frame, it could be a little more.
You do need to be aware however, that the DNS-323, out of the box, supports neither external USB drives, or jumbo frame - if you want them, you'll have to hack it, which is not difficult, the instructions are all here in this forum.
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Thanks so much for the info fordem.
Wow 170mbps is fantastic, I am running a jumboframe gigabit network. If I could get anywhere near 20MB/s I would be thrilled.
Last week I was between the DNS-323 and the ZyXEL NSA-220. The hardware specs on the 220 were better but it's lacking the community the 323 has here. I ended up going for the 220 and it's been very slow moving files over the USB connection.
I'm seeing about 20MB/s on the internal and 1.2MB/s on the external USB
You may have helped me decide to return it and get the DNS-323
Does a hacked 323 also get about 170mbps from the internal drives too? (i.e. there is really no performance hit for using the USB connection?)
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Rechecked my notes - seems my tests were done between a USB flash drive and the internal disks - 10 MB/s - the 170 mbps is what I get across the LAN to my internal disks, sorry for misleading you.
I would guess that the DNS-323 would give you better than 1.2 MB/s to an external drive, but, I don't have the required kernel modules loaded so I'm unable to run an actual test.
Again my apologies.
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No worries, thanks for following up with that info.
If your hardware is capable of at least the 10MB/s internally it shouldn't be too much worse over the LAN I would presume. Especially since the flash drive itself could have been the bottleneck.
If anyone else has numbers I would love to hear them too.
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I just had to replace my unit and recopy the files to my NAS. I saw the same 16-17 MB/sec when I copied from the NAS to the USB disk and back from the USB drive to the NAS. The NAS has 2 750 GB WD drives in RAID 1 and the USB has a 750 GB Seagate.
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jboy wrote:
I just had to replace my unit and recopy the files to my NAS. I saw the same 16-17 MB/sec when I copied from the NAS to the USB disk and back from the USB drive to the NAS. The NAS has 2 750 GB WD drives in RAID 1 and the USB has a 750 GB Seagate.
jerry
Was that to/from a USB drive attached to the NAS itself?
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