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Intel x1 PCI adapter gives approx 25% increase over onboard 8169. 107.5 MB/s FTP to unencrypted 4 disk raid 5 array. Samba - Bah. Also, the scheduled power off/on facility forgets the key for encrypted partitions so you have to re-insert after power on. If you boot without the key in, there...

OK. Copying the same 19.1 GB file back to SSD gives 45.6 MB/s read. I'm inclined to point my suspicious finger at the on-board Realtek but don't have a "real" adapter to replace it with. That might be a good purchase. I can probably believe the other 2 machines are write capped by magnetics -...

Sorry, when I say flash I was meaning SSD. I'm not talking about a stick, that was only when I was encrypting the array to store the key. Apologies if that wasn't clear. If I run the disk utility and run the read-only benchmark on that SSD, it gives a minimum read rate of 283.4 MB/s. My other...

Hello! Having just bought an N4800 I was very interested to see the performance graphs in your review. I bought the 4800 to replace an old, slow NAS and I wanted to store a lot of video and lossless audio so the files are large. I'd already bought and populated it before I found your review but...