slow speeds LS-W1.0TGL/R1-V3

[vanadiel]

   

Why are the transfer speeds of this NAS so slow?

The best I can get is about 120 Mbit/sec on a gigabit network. The web interface states it's connected in gigabit mode.

For comparison : my home build WHS can get around 500 Mbit/sec on the same network, and it's not even using raid.

 

I tried everything, I can not get above 120 Mbit/sec.

 

I am really disappointed with the network performance of this NAS. For that price I could have gotten 2 x 1.5TB hdd's and add them to my WHS. 

[aitriva]

   

I have the Linkstation Quad 4TB and I, too, noticed slow transfer speeds across my gigabit network.  I'm getting around 10-15 MB/sec which is between 100 - 150 Megabits/sec.

[vanadiel]

   

About the same here. It almost looks like it's using the gigabit connection in 10/100 mode. They should really look into this and find a solution, because using raid is an expensive solution if all you are going to achieve is 10/100 network speeds.

 

As a test I transfered a large file to the Buffalo Linkstation, and while it was going at 100-120 Mbit/sec I started another large file transfer to my WHS, and my combined speed jumped to 600 Mbit/sec. So it's clearly not a network issue, a router issue but an issue related to the Linkstation.

[JoshC]

As far as real world speed goes, read/write should be about 7 megabytes per second on a Gigabit ethernet network, or 3MB/sec on a 100 base-T network. Typically, a 1 GB transfer should take around 5-7 minutes. The speed is, for the most part, limited by the processor on the unit.

[vanadiel]

   

So there's no point hooking this up to a gigabit network, as you can get at best 10/100 performance capped by the units processor capabilities.

I wonder why the implementation of a gigabit network interface if the unit can only perform at 10/100 connectivity. Does this mean the processing power is upgradeable?

[JoshC]

No you cannot upgrade the processing power.  Remeber these are not file servers with huge processors.  They are very limited and were inteded as a storage unit.