WNDR3700 USB throughput.

[iugrifma]

Gents,
Has anyone tested the throughput (performance) of a connected Hard Disk (via USB 2) to this router? I know that's quite a subjective question, but I'm trying to get a feel on my setup. I've got a Maxtor (Seagate) drive attached and don't seem to be able to get more than 10MB/s throughput to a device connected on the routers LAN switch over Gigabit connection(s). The theoretical limits for both USB and Gigbit are way higher than the 10MB/s I'm seeing, but was wondering what anyone else might experience or think should be achievable?
Thanks for any help,
Griffo.

 

[thiggins]

See http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wire...ng-netgear-wndr3700-reviewed?showall=&start=2.

10 MB/s is about right.

 

[iugrifma]

Many thanks for the feedback Mr. thiggins, I guess I should of re-read the review as I forgot you tested USB throughput.

I'm a little gutted that 10/11MB/s is max speed.
Anyway, I do have one small bit of new info.

"...Write speed was 11.4 MB/s and read measured 9.8 MB/s—not bad for a router-based NAS. Note that this is much faster than the 2.8 MB/s reported in the Preview article, which could be due to my use of Vista SP1."

I dont think that speed was Vista SP1 related, because I'm using a Synology NAS to push/pull my data to the USB drive on the Router as a second tier storage solution (or overspill in plain speak). And I'm getting the aforementioned 10/11 MB/s using the wget[http]/wput[ftp] utilities (rsync wasn't an option). No enhanced Vista SP1 file copy in sight.

Thanks again for your help. I won't waste anymore time trying to squeeze more throughput out of the thing,

Regards,

Griffo.

 

[Maverickster]

For the record, I'm assuming the USB drive is formatted NTFS if those are the speeds you are getting. I reformatted mine (WD 1.5TB) to ext3 and now get in the neighborhood of 15MB/s (wired, gigabit, cat6).

 

[thiggins]

Yes. Drive was formatted NTFS.