Originally Posted by
Troy
For some reason whenever I try to explore the NAS over the network (bear in mind this is all gigabit as well) the transfer speeds I get are around 2-3MB. Granted there must be something holding this up at the router end because if I connect the ethernet direct from the NAS to a laptop, bypassing the router I get 18-20MB transfer rates and that is only because I have striped the drives. When they were mirrored, funnily enough I get almost exactly half that.
All of these speeds are lower than what you should expect from USB2, let alone from ethernet and gigabit at that.
Seems I am not alone on this, there are many forums with users who have a D-Link and get similar transfer rates. However, as said if I NFS something over, although I cannot track the transfer rate, HD movies have never stuttered, its just annoying that I have to direct connect the NAS in order to add more content to is, unless I want to wait an age. Consensus on the net is that it is the CPU on the NAS which can be the bottleneck, as well as other factors like the usual router/cables.