2011-05-10, 05:37
Superorb Wrote:^^ All of my 5900rpm green drives can write at 115-120MB/s and read speed is about the same. I still don't know why reads from the unRAID array are only around 50-55MB/s on a gigabit network. I know the throughput is slightly over 100MB/s through my network.
That's strange... Although even on my freenas box to windows clients I only hit 70-80 MB/s average read spead on my array. Since it sounds like you only use it for one media center its not a big deal but for me sometimes I have both my media centers streaming large 1080p files at the same time and its nice to know the bandwidth is there if its needed. Since unraid is linux im sure your speeds are higher when connecting with other linux clients also. There are a lot of other variables also; for examble I had a linksys 320N router before I got the router I am using now and my speeds were not as good. I now run the netgear 3700 (bought for $75 refurbished from compUSA) and flashed the latest ddwrt firmware on it and its been the best consumer router ive ever owned. Dual band wireless N with gigabit lan and the processor on it has more than enough power to run anything ive thrown at it. I can download full speed do file transfers to my NAS and stream full HD without even a hickup which I was never able to do with the linksys router even with ddwrt mega loaded on it. What is your network setup? have you neen able to get read write speeds higher than 50-60 MB/s on other devices on your network?
