FYI…I ran some simple backup time tests. I backed up 127Gb of data from an internal 7200 RPM SATA drive using standard compression. My goal was to gauge backup times between USB 2.0 vs. USB 3.0.
Backup to: USB 2.0 (7200 RPM Iomega eGO) = 48 minutes
Backup to: Internal SATA drive (7200 RPM Seagate Barracuda) = 38 Minutes
Backup to: USB 3.0 (7200 RPM Seagate Barracuda) = 24 minutes
Backup to: RAID 0 (7200 RPM Seagate Barracuda eSATA x 4) = 24 minutes
FYI…I ran some simple backup time tests. I backed up 127Gb of data from an internal 7200 RPM SATA drive using standard compression. My goal was to gauge backup times between USB 2.0 vs. USB 3.0.
Backup to: USB 2.0 (7200 RPM Iomega eGO) = 48 minutes
Backup to: Internal SATA drive (7200 RPM Seagate Barracuda) = 38 Minutes
Backup to: USB 3.0 (7200 RPM Seagate Barracuda) = 24 minutes
Backup to: RAID 0 (7200 RPM Seagate Barracuda eSATA x 4) = 24 minutes
Out of interest I did similar tests comparing USB 2.0 and eSATA . I used the same hard drive (Western Digitral MyBook Studio II with RAID 1) for both tests. Turned out eSATA was about twice as fast as USB 2.0, similar to your results. I like to see a test done with one of the very commonly available NAS drives, such as Buffalo, Iomega, LaCie. NETGEAR, QNAP, Seagate, etc.
Ok, my source used in these tests is a internal 350Gb SATA drive, 127Gb of data. Backing up to Buffalo Terastation Pro with Gigabit NIC, switch and LAN segment: Total time to complete was 81 minutes. We've got a busy network, so as you can imagine, there are many factors that affect network backup speeds.
According to a variety of reviews the Buffalo Terastation Pro is a terribly slow device. Perhaps it's something to do with the poor performance of the CPU they use. For example, there are reports that it's 5-10 times slower than say the Netgear Readynas. Whether such reports are true or not I would not know. I'd be very cautious of buying any NAS without an exhaustive review of the products.
What sort of speed do you get out of a gigabit network? My experience is limited to my 4 computer gigabit network. I only get a speed of 25 MB/sec when transferring a large file from one of the kid's computer to my computer. But if I get their computers to transfer the files simultaneously I can receive at 70 MB/sec.
What sort of speed do you get out of a gigabit network?
I don't have a NAS as yet. I do have a Gigabit switch and PC but I'm still using cat5 cabling so I will have to replace the cabling with either cat5e or cat6 before I buy one.
I had the house wired with Cat 6 cables last year. We had to run wires for fire alarms so it didn't cost much extra to add network cables. I'm very pleased as I had Wireless G at the time and the wireless transfer rate for large files was only 1 MB/sec.
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