Hey guys,
I was on the phone with Buffalo Tech Support.....Leave a bit to be desired....
Anyway, I see that Buffalo has released a new firmware, the reason i called TechSupport was to see why they did not release an explination as to what the firmware update actually does. Needless to say I was not happy about the hour of wasted time listening to hold music and technicians who weren't given the information about the products they're supposed to be supporting.
Does anyone know what the current update accomplishes?
Thanks in advance,
Kyle
Have you tried changing the Jumbo packets?
Try all the settings while timing a 1 gig file transfer.
What is your transfer speed now per gig?
Duration: 5 Minutes, 40 Seconds
Backup Size: 0.99GB
Because this device has to convert the file strucures of the data to XFS, the protocol SAMBA does take some time to do this.
Paul, the above speed was done over a Gigabit network...
I'm running a Check Disk currently.
What will running the firmware help if all it does is allow a longer domain name, and more complex passwords?
I did a quick calculation on our throughput, it comes out to 3.01MB/s over a 1000Mb connection for our 1GB transfer....This is less than 1/2 of 7MB/s.
I invite you to look at this link http://www.buffalotech.com/files/products/TeraStation-ProII_DS.pdf
It's the datasheet for the TeraStation Pro II. This datasheet is not very "informational" for lack of a better word. It's got several different transfer rates listed. A High speed mode (480Mb/s) which i assume is some sort of USB rate since this is the max speed of usb2.0 if i'm not mistaken, a Full speed mode (12Mb/s) Which i assume is the transfer rate of the "gigabit" interface, and then a lovely chart at the top of the spec sheet listing this drives speed VS a normal 10/100 device, and a USB/Firewire (which have different transfer rates), and the TS Pro II is listed at 30MB/s. What is this speed refering to?
Duration 5 minutes,55 seconds
Backup Size 1GB
Average Speed 2.88 MB/s
Duration 5 minutes 58 seconds
Backup Size 1GB
Average Speed 2.86 MB/s
Hey guys, I ran the speed test again this morning. I'd really like to just get some sort of explanation of the firmware. Hopefully it does more than allow longer domain names and more complex passwords. If any of you have any info I'd greatly appreciate you letting me know.
Duration 6 minutes 20 seconds
Backup Size 1GB
Average Speed 2.69 MB/s
Any Ideas?
Hey everyone,
I ran another test backup today after 90% of our users had logged off, wanted to just keep you updated.
Today's backup ran like this:
Duration 7minutes 42seconds
Backup Size 1GB
Average Speed 2.21MB/s
Thanks,
Kyle
Todays' morning test results:::::::
Duration 6minutes 27seconds
Size 1GB
Avg Spd 2.64MB/s
Up a little from yesterday.
Todays test goes a lil somethin like this....
Duration 5minutes 5seconds
Backup Size 1GB
Average Speed 3.35 MB/s
This thread has somewhat died, however, I wanted to add a question as I too am interested in the throughput question.
According to an earlier reply in this post, Paul stated that the transfer
rate should be about 7 GBps on a gigabit network. The reply does not
explicitly state it but I assume that is for a TeraStation II (as this is
the thread base).
However, according to KB#000107-Terastation Transfer Rates, the transfer rates on a gigabit network should be up 38 GBps (300Gbps) on TeraStation Pro II (and 8 GBps on a TeraStation).
So, which is it ? I'm experiencing about 8GBps (T-II on gigabit) and
want to know if I should be trying to improve this or am I already at the
limit ?
Thanks !
Oops - so much for trying to clarify things. You are correct in that I stated GBps when it should have been MBps:
TeraStation Pro II - 7 to 8 MBps on gigabit network (63-72Mbps)
seems to be common....but KB#000107 states 38 MBps (300Mbps).
Well, buffalo is horribly unclear on their actual throughput on their devices......
I believe the 300Mb connection refers to the expandable USB drives as this is the speed of USB.