OT: Seagate 2TB gigabit backup drive

[JEROEN ELIAS]

Hi Richard,

I personally have a similar "NAS", which is a Wester Digital "WD Book" or something like that.
I configured the thing to be publically accessable through a network share.
You message triggered me do do a file transfer test from my laptop through (150 Mbps) WiFi to the external disk. I used a large file with the size of app. 8 GB. The LAN I have installed is also Gigabit with a switch and a router.
The speed settled to about 3.5 to 4.5 Mbytes/s, more than 3 times faster than your experience.
Perhaps there is some communication problem between your drive and the server. Could it be that your NAS is doing lots of overhead by handling security? I had it all switched off because in my situation (LAN at home) I didn't bother security.

Try switching off all security on the Seagate disk and measure the speed again.

Just my 2c :-)

Regards,
  Jeroen Elias






On 16-12-11, Richard Kreiss  <rkreiss at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> The USB drive I had attached to my workstation for backup ran out of space
> recently.  I decided to purchase a larger drive and saw A 2TB Seagate drive
> advertised for $169.00.
> 
> I attached it to my Gigabit switch and installed the software which came
> with it (Windows 7 64 bit).
> 
> The drive was made to appear as a new server with its own IP address.  The
> software then mapped the drive to my workstation.
> 
> I then used the software to assign a fixed IP address so as to make mapping
> the drive possible without the software.
> 
> This was easily done on my server with Windows Server 2003 as one could use
> an IP address for mapping the drive.  Also the network option did see the
> drive as a server on the network.  However, this is not true for Windows 7.
> 
> My main complaint about this drive, is the slowness of the backups or
> copying files to it.  Currently I am copying an old backup file
> Backup-11-26-08.bkf to the drive.  It is 35.7GB and based on the estimated
> time, it will take about 19 hours to copy this file.  The data transfer rate
> has settled in at about 896KB/sec.
> 
> It looks like this is a "poor man's NAS".  I need to look to purchasing a
> GIGABIT NAS to handle faster file transfers and backups.
> 
> 
> 
> Richard Kreiss
> GCC Consulting
> 
> Office: 410-653-2813
> 
> 
> 
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