Please help me get the speed out of my NAS that I should be getting!!

[jwspid24]

I've exhausted all other resources to help me get my NAS reading and writing at an acceptable speed. I have an MSI wind PC set up as a file server, based off several of the articles in SmallNetBuilder which have been very helpful. It has 2GB of RAM, a 1.6 single core atom processor. It also has a 120 GB SATA drive for the OS which is Ubuntu Server. Then I have a Hitachi Deskstar 7500 1 TB drive as my storage. No matter where I copy files from or to, I can not get over 21MB/s as my speed. I've tried using a XP, Vista and Win 7 client to copy from and get the same result with them all. I have even tried copying from a client to the Wind with WIndows installed on it. I still get the same speed! From everything that I have read I should be read/writing at 40MB/s. What might be the problem?? I appreciate any advice I can get to save my sanity.

 

[00Roush]

My assumption is your Wind PC is something like this.

First up how is your 1TB drive connected to the Wind PC/NAS?
Have you tried testing using the 120GB drive?

00Roush

 

[thiggins]

How are you measuring the speed and what are you transferring? Small files and lots of files in folders will drastically reduce speed. You'll see highest speed using > 1 GB files.