Write speed issue

[atomic]

I know my disks are not on the compatibility list but I would like to know if anyone else is using these drives successfully as my write speeds are terrible.. I have tried RAID0,1 but still no success. My n2100 has the latest firmware installed.

It seems to copy the first 54Mb at around 8-10Mb/s but after that it slows to like 200k (if that) and wont recover...??

2 x Seagate ST3500630NS (Barracudas)
Firmware: 3.AE

Read speeds are untested as I havent copied any descent sized files over yet.

I have tried both 1.5Gb/s and 3Gb/s settings to no avail.

Any help/advice appreciated.

[getmythe]

Hi atomic,

your message is a little short on information. Do you copy a single file and see this slow down mid transfer or are you transferring many files, large and small ones? What protocol are you using ftp, smb, afp or web upload/download?

Please be aware that smb is extremely slow when transferring lots of small files, as well as in case there are tons (e.g. hundreds) of files within a directory. Further more web upload/download can slow down dramatically mid transfer on very large files.

getmythe

[atomic]

apologies for the lack of information. I will try to include everything you requested in this post.

Connection: tried both SMB and AFP
Files transfer: True - I have been attempting to transfer a massive amount of data at once. This includes large and small file sizes.

The question is if SMB or AFP cannot transfer large amounts of data without slowing down, how do I transfer 320Gb (1000's of files) to the drive without having to drag and drop each file.

Is this the case for all NAS devices?

[oreos]

I transfered my approx. 200GB of files almost at once without any issues. I mounted the drives with \\IP\sharename over WIndows and it worked like a charm. I had files up to a couple of GBytes. Total file number went also into many, many 1000s.

The speed was constant over the whole period.