What is the speed of ur NAS?

[BPoller]

Hi,

i am building my own NAS at the moment and would like to compare the Transfer-Speed with some solfd NAS-systems.

So if u have ur results, would be perfect, if u could post them incl. the test-tool u used.

Thanks,

B.Poller

[BPoller]

I have found some transfer speeds for some popular NAS-Systems:

http://www.testticker.de/files/2008/images...chmarks_big.gif

(although the site is german, this graphic is understandable, cause download and upload are used in german too.)

But these systems have a gigabit-netcard, my system would have only 100 MBit.

So any results for 100 MBit out there?

Bye,

B.Poller

[rendrag]

here's another good reference for NAS speeds

http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/component/o..._nas/Itemid,190

[Zxian]

If you're building a NAS based on 100Mbps ethernet, then you're likely going to be limited by the connection speed. The only other possibility I can think of that would limit you is if you were applying linux software RAID5 on a very old or low powered CPU.

What are you building your NAS out of? Would it not be possible to add a PCI Gigabit ethernet card?

If you want a really solid setup that won't cost you too much (~300-400 euros for 2TB) check this out. It's a complete x86 PC in a tiny box, that draws about 40W out of the wall. Since you're in Europe, you'd likely get even better efficiency from the higher voltage you get from the electrical system.

[BPoller]

Hi,

TO RENDRAG:

Perfect, thanks so much, now i can really compare my system (when finished )

TO ZXIAN:

I will try 3 different systems, but 2 of them are based on embedded Hardware or modified ThinClients.

One has no ISA/PCI-Slot and the other only 1x, but i will use a USB 2.0 Card for Stick or HDD there.

Maybe on that System i could use a USB 2.0-Gigabit-Connector, but first USB is limited to 480 MBit, and second, the thruput will decrease, if i will save on a USB-Device i suppose.

On my third system i could try a gigabit card, but that system would also be limited by CPU, because all togehter i wanna a powersaving system for 24/7 usage.

But great thank you guys,

B.Poller