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I've been playing with Jumbo Frames and this has positively affected the results of the tests, most of which which I've re-run. See the blog: Zarch's Blog Thoughts?

Thanks for the detailed reply PeterK, appreciate it. Yes, the reads are indeed baffling, especially as the low speeds are consistent across different OS and copy types. Going to carry on digging though to try and find answer to the problem. If anyone has any thoughts, then i'm all ears! :)

To summarise my findings so far: Reads 710+ to PC File Copy: 46MB/sec 710+ to PC FTP: 61MB/sec 710+ to Mac File Copy: 61MB/sec 710+ to Mac FTP: 88MB/sec Writes PC File Copy to 710+: 109MB/sec PC FTP to 710+: 96MB/sec Mac File Copy to 710+ : 70MB/sec Mac FTP to 710+: 102MB/sec...

Updated the blog with some more performance tests. Any questions/thoughts, please let me know.

But tough at the moment as i've got my old CS407 4-bay unit running at the same time as the DS710+. The spec sheets say it should be a little quieter though. But i never had any problems with the noise on the CS407.

Well I couldn't resist, so went and bought the new Synology 2-bay DS710+ NAS as an upgrade from my Synology 4-bay CS407. I written this little review along with performance figures straight out of the box. The quoted read/write figures from Synology are over 100MB/sec read and write, so I...

Looks to be in UK shops now at £160. (£60 cheaper than the 209 at £220 and nearly half the price of a 209+II at £313) Wonder if we'll see a SNB review anytime soon? :D

I agree, i was thinking of getting a DS209, but this release makes me wonder if theres a new DS210 in the pipeline? Think i'll hold off for a short while.

http://download.synology.com/download/ds/DS210j/DataSheet/Synology_DS110j_Data_Sheet_enu.pdf Looking at google, this appears to be 180EUR, but no sign of a release date as yet. Quoted performance stats of 75+ MB/Sec Read and 33+ MB/Sec Writes. It looks like its had a CPU and Memory...

For info, i installed WHS last night on a current PC (2ghz E4400, 2gb ram on an intel board) and instantly got 60MB/Sec transfer speeds (which was the speed limit on the data drive i used). So i'm sure I could squeeze a little more out of it with a new 100+MB/Sec drive!! :rolleyes: It does...

Thanks MSL, don't get me wrong, i love tinkering.... but i'd rather not tinker for tinkerings sake..... and if the there is little difference cash wise, the DS209 looks favourite. Would like to hear other peoples opinions. :confused: Anyone want to buy a CS407 with 4 x 320gb Samsungs in?? :D

Part of me is swaying back towards just getting the Synology DS209. :confused: The unit and 2 x 1tb Spinpoint F3's come in at £322 with hibernation at 10W and access power draw at 25W. Its convenient and provides the raid 1 protection i'd ideally like. (creating the same via WHS or a...

Question for you guys. I've read lots of threads on here where XP file copy performance isn't a patch on Vista and Win 7. But where would you put Leopard/Snow Leopard in comparison to Xp/Vista? Anyone done any Mac testing?

Sounds great Jay. Get selling that gear! ;)

Tim, Your Atom self build was based on the older D945GCLF board with only a "230" Atom chip and 100Mbit ethernet so you subsequently used an external gigabit card........... Was the enternal card throttled by the PCI bus? Would the newer D945GCLF2 board perform better with its onboard...